On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Dave J. Andruczyk wrote:
> > Thank you for all nice answer.
> >
> > Now, I have many reference to get the ne SCSI HardDisk.
> > And I will buy the Adaptec 2940 ultra wide scsi and use Slackware 3.4
> > (kernel 2.0.30). Is this SCSI adapter card compatible with this kernel
> > versions ?
>
> the 2940 is compatible with linux, (not sure about slackware 3.4 is
> current though.) I use redhat 5.1, (mainly for the updates, and RPM based
> packages..)
Slackware 3.4 is fine, (some of my systems are still running 3.1 or 3.2,
suitably upgraded in genksym and libc etc. -- the base userspace code
varies slowly and works fine in each generation) but he'll want to/need
to build a current kernel anyway. 2.0.30 has deadlock problems and lots
more bugs than 2.0.35 (although I used it just fine for quite a long
time with the deadlock patches as they were released). The aic7xxx in
2.0.35 will work perfectly with a 2940 with 99% probability -- there are
a VERY few exceptions and they tend to be a very few
motherboard/hardware combos (where, say, two cards are in conflict) or
systems that are driven just right to tickle a VM/MMAP problem. I've
been using 2940's without significant problems for years.
rgb
Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
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