Re: adaptec 2120S software under RedHat 8.0 and FC2

Ross Macintyre
2005-03-22T16:32:20Z

Christoph Hellwig said:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:41:18AM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
>> We are pressuring our management application folks to switch to /sys as
>> well, has not happened yet. In part because changes have to work for all
>> tested releases and operating systems, our testing department only test
>> distributions in the requirement documents, fixes are only approved if
>> they affect current testing, certification testing requires a driver
>> that can be fixed and not errata'd and thus typically can not be in-box,
>> CONFIG_PROC_FS being on in all distributions and the need to keep the
>> /proc interface alive to permit the current and legacy applications in
>> test the ability to continue to function.
>
> We're not going to add new procfs handler for scsi HBA drivers.
>
> Unfortunately this problems shows once more that Adaptec managment doesn't
> care the slightest bit for Linux and has the worst support of all RAID /
> Storage vendors. I can only advise OEMs and customers to stay far away
> from Adaptec equipment if they want to use Linux.

Since you advise us to stay away from Adaptec, and I assume you are part
of the team that manages the Fedora system, can you advise users what RAID
/ Storage vendors to use? ie what quality vendors support Linux?
Thanks,

Ross

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Ross Macintyre (raz@macs.hw.ac.uk)