On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:15:36PM -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote: > > What kind of problems have you run into with the Adaptec card? I'm using > that card and software RAID, and i've run into hard lock problems. I > attributed it to the RAID code, but it could be the card.
In slink, the installation would hang up after failing to properly puzzle out which driver to load into the kernel. The workaround was to grab the boot floppy image that was tailored to it. In the first frozen potato I was seeing scads of I/O timeouts on disk access. Again, though, I haven't tried it since the first frozen version. It may be okay now, or okay using the 'idepci' images. > As for the NIC's that you talk about, we run 3c905's but i'm not sure if > they are the C version or not, we havent had any problems with them, but > we havent been pushing much traffic at all. More info on that as well > would be appreciated. The latest 3C905's (3C905C-TXM) don't run under the old common Linux driver -- but 3Com links to some suitable source code from their site. I've had no trouble out of them. I've heard from quite a few folks that the 3C905C is unsupported, but in each case have found that they were trying to use the common Linux driver, not the one provided by 3Com. Whether or not potato's '905 driver is the old one or something newer I don't know. -- ---- Art Sackett ---- Art Sackett Professional Web Design 1067 Cleveland Street Meeker, CO 81641-3217 USA +1.970.878.5014 http://www.artsackett.com
