Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2000 00:57:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!? |
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Doug is not doing 'Adaptec' as far as I know. They have there own internal (Adaptec) for writing drivers. Ask them first, dsorry no more help than that from me.
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Dave Madsen wrote:
> Based on what I've been able to find out on the net, it > appears that the support of the Adaptec 29160 is not complete > (optimal?), but because the card works in a degraded mode with the > current driver, there haven't been many complaints. > > A recent benchmark in Open Magazine (1.2, Sep 2000) describes this. > Their comments on page 26 address this issue. They say the card is > recognized as a "7892", and works in Ultra2 mode instead of Ultra160. > The use Redhat 6.2 for their benchmark. > > Looking at the driver, the README.aic7xxx file does not say that the > 29160 (or any other Adaptec Ultra160 card, for that matter) is > supported. > > I sent e-mail to the driver maintainer (dledford@redhat.com) over a week > ago, but he has not replied. > > Am I missing something or is there no Ultra160 Adaptec support for > Linux? I find the former more likely than the latter, and welcome any > pointers to a driver with Ultra160 Adaptec support. > > Dave Madsen ---dcm > madsen@vijit.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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