Re: PERCRAID 3 drivers?

From: Bruce A. Locke (blocke@shivan.org)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 18:45:20 EST


So does this mean that the driver currently in redhat's pinstripe beta
should be avoided on an production SMP system? Is sticking with 2.2.14
perferable right now? Anyone know how far along the adaptec guys are?

Thanks for your time...

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > AFAIK, Dell wrote these drivers themselfs and they are unwilling to release
>
> The drivers for the percraid have adaptec copyrights and have been made
> available finally but were too ugly at the moment to merge (and had some
> obvious potentially nasty bugs like using down() on a spinlock
>
> The adaptec guys are cleaning it up
>

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