On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:17AM -0500, Neil Gunton wrote:
I've never done that (at install time anyway) - are you talking about
just using something like modprobe or insmod?
Yes using modprobe (insmod should almost never be used manually).
I always thought Adaptec was a pretty major company. I guess I was wrong
(or at least chose a card that turned out to be kind of a loser). I
thought that drivers were difficult back in 2005 because the card was so
new. Now it appears the opposite - nobody is using it because it just
never took off at all.
I remember all the hype about i2o a long time ago, and I thought it had
totally disappeared. I was rather surprised a couple of years ago when
someone asked how to get i2o working with the amd64 sarge installer.
Adaptec is a large company, but it seems a lot less low end users bother
with scsi anymore. I think the main market is enterprise level with
SAS today. Parallel shared single point of failure busses are fortunately
going away now.