> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there a way around this? The card only costs about $90 US, but I > > would hate to throw money away. Any ideas, comments? > > Why don't you send us one, and we'll try to get it going? We're working > today on adding support for the 3Ware 6200 - we have one of those to test > with. > > Well, actually, we'll only work on the Promise FastTrak100 if the driver > is available in source. > Charlie, I would like to add some general questions about specific device support to that topic. We are competing quite often in areas where other companies have already quoted on a WindowsNT/2000 server RAID (hardware) based system which means the client is aware of the benefits of RAID and willing to pay for these. Our preferred hardware supplier now prefers Adaptec's models 3200S and 2100S as their standard RAID controllers. Adaptec offers drivers for these controllers for RH 7.0 but as far as I can see on Redhat's (7.0) hardware compatibility list, these drivers are not included/supported by a standard Redhat 7.0 system/kernel. As we have read here on the list, E-smith is based on standard Redhat kernels therefore I do not expect E-smith 4.1 to support these controllers. One idea: It should be possible for me to have a RH 7.0 standard installation on another box which is used only for kernel compiles? If I only add the drivers for these controllers to that kernel source and recompile, what would I have to do to recreate an E-smith 4.1 iso that includes the self compiled kernel? I would need help with that. On the other side, if we then sell such a self-build E-smith 4.1 to the client in combination with your support subscription, you might not want to accept this? Any idea how we can solve that (upcoming) problem? Kind Regards, Michael Doerner
