On 2 Oct 1998, Michael Meissner wrote:
> Adolf Ahmad MS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > 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 ?
>
> Since this is posted in linux-smp, I cannot honestly say the 2940 ultra wide
> adapter is compatible with kernel 2.0.30. I had quite a few cases of disk
Nothing is smp-compatible with 2.0.30 -- it had a slew of smp bugs in
it. Almost all of them have been resolved. Adaptec even supports linux
and freebsd decently now. I've used adaptec 2940's for years,
exclusively with smp kernels, and many in dual PPro systems. The only
case of disk corruption occurred in an adapter I bought around three
years ago (kernel 2.0.0? 2.0.11? something like that) which I suspect
was caused at least partly by Adaptec's nasty habit of altering their
BIOS firmware at will -- that particular card has always been trouble
and I'll bet a nickel that (even though I did reflash it once) its BIOS
is buggy and not fixable. If you put a different/new card in, by now it
would probably be rock solid.
rgb
Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
