Official word on [23]940 problems, and archives

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sunday 9 August 1998, at 8 h 27, the keyboard of mark at vielle.datasys.net 
(Mark R. Lindsey) wrote:

> Where are the archives of this list?

http://www.luga.or.at/mailing-lists/aic7xxx/ (Apparently down for August)

> I'm looking for both of those to try to find this: has there been
> `official' word in the Linux community about the quality of the aic7xxx
> driver in the last few soi-disant stable kernels? I've had numerous

Linux kernel 2.0.34 introduced a new version of the Adaptec driver, 5.0. This 
move was, IMHO, a very bad one for a maintenance kernel since 5.0 broke with 
several Adaptec cards. This sort of mistake is really bad for the reputation 
of Linux, which is otherwise a very stable and serious operating system. The 
5.0 driver should have been included in the experimental 2.1.* kernels instead.

> (I'm just wondering why the driver went south, and trying to find the
> best way to use a modern kernel *and* avoid random crashes tickled by
> SCSI problems.)

See my previous posting a few minutes ago for solutions/workarounds.



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