Thanks Joe I just want to comment on my experience with Areca.
That is pity that Areca's drivers got kicked even from -mm devel branch of linux mainstream kernel (unfortunately I don't remember in which exact version it has happened). Recent driver provided by Areca seems to work fine for me (after I upgraded power supply of the box, which was mentioned by Areca as the main possible cause of the instability in operation we had). So problem seems to be resolved, but I disliked that the areca developers kept the same version of the driver (thus file name) while he introduced some changes, which they named (in my inquiry to them) as the simple refactoring of the code without any change in functionality. I saw other people in the mailing lists complaining about the same or similar issue (http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0611.3/0590.html). So, things working well, but code was orphaned by linux kernel developers (read more about some resolved and not resolved problems in the mailing lists http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=113597128115672&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115226175822438&w=2), versioning is somewhat is inconsistent as I've mentioned How do you do with your Areca? :-) On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Joe Landman wrote: > Hi folks: > We have put together some Areca RPMs for x86_64 systems. RPMs for the > Areca are available > now in binary/source form at > http://downloads.scalableinformatics.com/downloads/Scientific_Linux/4.4/x86_64/ -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
