From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: Please help if u can. Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:55:26 -0800 Message-ID: <45DCB1BE.403@us.ibm.com> References: <45DB9D89.7030804@tlchosting.com> <45DBD6CF.7010309@torque.net> <45DBE495.6050706@us.ibm.com> <45DC9053.10908@tlchosting.com> Reply-To: "Darrick J. Wong" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:51404 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423108AbXBUUze (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:55:34 -0500 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1LKtVpm001739 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:55:31 -0500 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.2) with ESMTP id l1LKtV1o538318 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:55:31 -0700 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l1LKtUQt020649 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:55:31 -0700 In-Reply-To: <45DC9053.10908@tlchosting.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: John Scarpa Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Alexis Bruemmer John Scarpa wrote: > First a very big thanks to all of u! I have been suffering a serious > lack of sleep problem lately.. i should have noticed that by whom has > been submitting the past 500 fixes and updates! > > Quick question, is the driver still consider experimental?? Very much so. The SAS bits are fairly stable nowadays, but the rest is still YMWV. :) > the guys i > work with say it doesn't support sata drives and it's still experimental SATA support is under development. Patches exist in the git tree here: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/aic94xx-sas-2.6.git;a=summary > so don't use it. And i can't find anything on the state of this driver. > > PS. I should have said i dropped that aic94xx-seq.fw in > /lib,/lib/firmware,/lib64,/lib64/firmware (still have yet to get this > sucker to work) Yes, you need a udev that's new enough to know how to handle the firmware loading interface. Typically, udev will load firmware from /lib/firmware, though I suppose that depends on the distribution. Not sure if RH/Fedora support fw loading, newer Ubuntu-E and SuSE do... --D