Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:32:29 +0100 (CET) | | From | Gérard Roudier <> | | Subject | Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans |
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Justin Gibbs] > > I've verified the driver's functionality on 25 different cards thus > > far covering the full range of chips from aic7770->aic7899. > > That's very good to hear. I know the temptation of only testing on new > hardware; that's why I was concerned. > > > Lots of people here at Adaptec look at me funny when I pull a PC from > > the scrap-heap, or pull an old, discontinued card from an unused > > marketing display for use in my lab > > Heh. (: > > BTW, is there really enough common ground between the whole series of > AIC chips to justify a single huge driver? I know they ship three > separate NT drivers to cover this range..
LSILOGIC also ship 3 drivers to cover the 53C810 - 53C1010 range on NT. And, btw, these chips are all PCI.
Doing so, 12 different drivers would be needed to cover 4 different O/Ses, for example. These drivers (I spoke about both LSILOGIC and ADAPTEC drivers for NT) obviously work for i386, but what about architecture dependencies at source level?
May-be this is the reason some UNIX vendors seem to love UDI. :)
If you also use SYMBIOS chips, you may give a try with SYM-2. For the moment, it replaces only 6 drivers :) as also seems to do, for the moment, Justin's AIC7XXX-6, by the way.
The plans seem clear to me. :-) Btw, I _do_ like a lot better the 'one driver' plan over the '12 or more' one.
Gérard.
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