ARO-1130CA Raid Card Support?

[Grahame Jordan]

Thanks for that info. I just hate to give up to NT. We cannot encourage
this. :)

Mmmm motivation, how can we help?


Grahame Jordan


"Do or do not; There is no try"
Yoda

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 garver at vulcan.valkyrie.net wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:58:31PM +1100, Grahame Jordan wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have been looking high and low for some references to support for
> > ARO-1130CA RAID card on Linux.
> > 
> > Adaptec say that there is some liason with the Linux community(who??) 
> > re: the utilities for this card but did not say if it actually works or
> > not.
> > 
> > I would guess that the card should actually be transparent to the OS,
> > therfore it just may work after configuration.  Or is this wishful
> > thinking?
> 
> I have been here also, and the news is bad.  I too thought the
> OS shouldn't care about the card.  But the way the the linux driver
> is currently implemented, it uploads squencer code into the card
> when the kernel starts.  This squencer code replaces the Adaptec
> code on the card.  I think the advantage with this is that
> the linux aic7xxx driver writers (i.e. Doug Ledford) don't have to
> reverse engineer how to communicate with the card.  Adaptec
> was not always friendly with linux developers.
> 
> How this toasts the ARO-1130xA cards is that when the sequencer
> code is uploaded to the card, you would lose all information about
> the arrays you have set up.  Of course this is bad and unacceptable.
> 
> I'm not sure if the new adaptec alliance changes anything.  I'm
> assuming Doug can now get his hands on the calls to the Adaptec
> sequencer so he doesn't have to write his own, but I'm not sure
> there will be much motivation for this.
> 
> We ended up giving up on this cheap RAID option, or just
> using it in WinNT boxes.
> 
> Later,
> Jake Garver
> Valkyrie Internet Service
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Grahame Jordan
> > 
> > 
> > "Do or do not; There is no try"
> > Yoda
> > 
> > 
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