On Thursday 09 June 2005 03:26, Simon wrote: > I'm just a bit worried and surprised that these adaptec controllers > aren't supported by sarge's installer when they appear to be in wide > use commercially and supported by adaptec since mid-2003 (and there is > some time pressure involved unfortunately). Red Hat and Suse seem to > have support out-of-the-box but they are not where we want to go with > these HP servers. Note: Debian is not commercial and thus tends to follow kernel development more than being proactive about it. If you need a proactive distribution, you'll have to pay the cost associated with that. > The aacraid source is GPL (copyright Red Hat and Adaptec) and is > included in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I don't yet know which kernel the > sarge installer is using, so perhaps aacraid is very back-level there. Attached is the README for the aacraid driver included with the 2.6.8 kernel sources Debian (and the installer) is currently using. Also the README from the 2.6.11 kernel source. We hope to be able to provide an installer with a 2.6.11 kernel fairly soon. So patience... Cheers, FJP
AACRAID Driver for Linux (take two) Introduction ------------------------- The aacraid driver adds support for Adaptec (http://www.adaptec.com) RAID controllers. This is a major rewrite from the original Adaptec supplied driver. It has signficantly cleaned up both the code and the running binary size (the module is less than half the size of the original). Supported Cards/Chipsets ------------------------- AAR-2410SA SATA Adaptec 2120S Adaptec 2200S Adaptec 2230S Adaptec 3230S Adaptec 3240S Adaptec 5400S ASR-2020S PCI-X Dell PERC 2 Quad Channel Dell PERC 2/Si Dell PERC 3/Si Dell PERC 3/Di Dell CERC 2 HP NetRAID-4M Legend S220 Legend S230 People ------------------------- Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> (updates for new-style PCI probing and SCSI host registration, small cleanups/fixes) Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com> (revision ioctl, adapter messages) Deanna Bonds <deanna_bonds@adaptec.com> (non-DASD support, PAE fibs and 64 bit, added new adaptec controllers added new ioctls, changed scsi interface to use new error handler, increased the number of fibs and outstanding commands to a container) (fixed 64bit and 64G memory model, changed confusing naming convention where fibs that go to the hardware are consistently called hw_fibs and not just fibs like the name of the driver tracking structure) Mark Salyzyn <Mark_Salyzyn@adaptec.com> Fixed panic issues and added some new product ids for upcoming hbas. Original Driver ------------------------- Adaptec Unix OEM Product Group Mailing List ------------------------- linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org (Interested parties troll here) http://mbserver.adaptec.com/ (Currently more Community Support than Devel Support) Also note this is very different to Brian's original driver so don't expect him to support it. Adaptec does support this driver. Contact either tech support or Mark Salyzyn. Original by Brian Boerner February 2001 Rewritten by Alan Cox, November 2001
AACRAID Driver for Linux (take two) Introduction ------------------------- The aacraid driver adds support for Adaptec (http://www.adaptec.com) RAID controllers. This is a major rewrite from the original Adaptec supplied driver. It has signficantly cleaned up both the code and the running binary size (the module is less than half the size of the original). Supported Cards/Chipsets ------------------------- Adaptec 2020S Adaptec 2025S Adaptec 2120S Adaptec 2200S Adaptec 2230S Adaptec 2240S Adaptec 2410SA Adaptec 2610SA Adaptec 2810SA Adaptec 21610SA Adaptec 3230S Adaptec 3240S Adaptec 4000SAS Adaptec 4005SAS Adaptec 4800SAS Adaptec 4805SAS Adaptec 5400S Dell PERC 2 Quad Channel Dell PERC 2/Si Dell PERC 3/Si Dell PERC 3/Di Dell CERC 2 HP NetRAID-4M Legend S220 Legend S230 People ------------------------- Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> (updates for new-style PCI probing and SCSI host registration, small cleanups/fixes) Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com> (revision ioctl, adapter messages) Deanna Bonds (non-DASD support, PAE fibs and 64 bit, added new adaptec controllers added new ioctls, changed scsi interface to use new error handler, increased the number of fibs and outstanding commands to a container) (fixed 64bit and 64G memory model, changed confusing naming convention where fibs that go to the hardware are consistently called hw_fibs and not just fibs like the name of the driver tracking structure) Mark Salyzyn <Mark_Salyzyn@adaptec.com> Fixed panic issues and added some new product ids for upcoming hbas. Original Driver ------------------------- Adaptec Unix OEM Product Group Mailing List ------------------------- linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org (Interested parties troll here) Also note this is very different to Brian's original driver so don't expect him to support it. Adaptec does support this driver. Contact either tech support or Mark Salyzyn. Original by Brian Boerner February 2001 Rewritten by Alan Cox, November 2001
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