Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!?

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2000 - 03:57:37 EDT

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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
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    Andre Hedrick
    The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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