On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:09:49 -0500 (CDT), Doug Ledford wrote:
>If we are going to have an Adaptec slam fest, then at's least be correct
>about it. No two 2940UW cards use any fundamentally different hardware,
>nor do they require anything different in the way of kernel code to
>operate. The only thing that may change is the BIOS version on the card,
>and that only changes how we read the information out of the BIOS. For
>the most part, these changes in the BIOS maintain enough backward
>compatibility that nothing need be done in the driver to read them. There
>is one, and only one, time at which we have had to modify our BIOS read
>routines to work properly on new BIOS version.
If what you say is true (which I don't doubt at all), then something
else is causing all the support issues with the Adaptec controllers
(not so much with the 2940's though). I just refuse to use them based
on some of my experiences in my lab with them. They just seem to be
very picky about getting recognized by the kernel.
>> I have to make it clear that Adaptec has vowed to correct this
>> situation and seems willing to work with the Linux community. The
>> level of cooperation remains to be seen, but I hope that it does happen
>> so that I can feel good about recommending Adaptec controllers to
>> people.
>
>If I knew the right person to talk to, I could probably get what I want.
>But, I don't. So, at this point, they still aren't noticeably helping the
>linux community in any fasion. FreeBSD is another matter, since that's
>what Justin Gibbs writes for.
I'll poke around for the name of the person at Adaptec that has said
they want to correct their driver deficiency in Linux. Please remind
me if you don't hear from me this week sometime.
Mike
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