Hi, I've just purchased a new AMD Ahtlon system, and got with it an Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A as it seemed to do what I wanted.
Unfortunately, this card is not "officially" supported by Adaptec, after emailing their support they only tell me "unfortunately it's not supported under Linux", yet they have all the Windows drivers. They told me the 2400A card (which is many times more expensive and has more features than what I need), is supported under Linux and they provide the drivers for it. Having googled for information on this card and Linux, I've discovered that the card can be used using the HPT370 (HighPoint Technology) driver, since Adaptec use that chipset on their card. I obtained the driver from: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/r100r_down.htm for Red Hat 8.0 and it works fine. I'm wondering why Adaptec don't "officially" supply this driver themselves??? and don't provide support for the card under Linux since it works perfectly well. All I need is mirroring facility on the IDE drives, so that's all I wanted in the card. The more expensive 2400A (which Adaptec officially support under Linux) has all the bells and whistles, has a processor on board and supports RAID 5, but I don't need those features so don't need that card. If it wasn't for the HPT driver, I would have got rid of the Adaptec and looked at something else, maybe a Fastrack 100 or similar, whatever is supported under Linux. I don't see the reasoning behind Adaptecs decision not to support the 1200A under Linux. Anyway, if anyone has experience with this card I do have one query. I'd like to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.18-14smp which I have on the fresh RH8 install (installing the HPT driver upon installation via the driver disk), to the newest 2.4.20-20.8smp, but HPT have only got a module for 2.4.20-8smp on their driver disk. Can I use this module on the newer 2.4.20-20.8smp by just copying the module into the kernel tree for 2.4.20-20.8smp ? If not, how else can I upgrade the kernel to 2.4.20-20.8smp while still using the HPT module / driver. Note that I have my RAID 1 mirror as the boot drive for Linux. Thanks. Michael. http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
