adp94xx driver for 2.6.13?

adp94xx driver for 2.6.13?

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

Are drivers/sources available for Adaptec's AIC-94XX SAS controllers
someplace?  I am trying to run 2.6.13 on a x460.  Any pointers to the latest
driver sources appreciated.

Thanks,
Kiran

Re: adp94xx driver for 2.6.13?

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:33 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Are drivers/sources available for Adaptec's AIC-94XX SAS controllers
> someplace?  I am trying to run 2.6.13 on a x460.  Any pointers to the latest
> driver sources appreciated.

There is no driver source for Adaptec SATA hardware.  You need to get
the latest binary drivers from Adaptec support.

James

Re: adp94xx driver for 2.6.13?

[Steven Dake]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 16:08 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:33 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > Are drivers/sources available for Adaptec's AIC-94XX SAS controllers
> > someplace?  I am trying to run 2.6.13 on a x460.  Any pointers to the latest
> > driver sources appreciated.
> 
> There is no driver source for Adaptec SATA hardware.  You need to get
> the latest binary drivers from Adaptec support.
> 
> James
> 
> 

James & Ravikiran,
Adaptec does have source code available under the GPL for the AIC 94xx.
In fact it was submitted to this list and rejected.

It appears to work reasonably well under our stress testing environments
here at mvista.  It does have some problems on x86_64 with 8gb of ram
but works well with 6gb on x86_64.  It also has a significant amount of
nits which make it unacceptable for kernel.org merging.

Regards
-steve
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Re: adp94xx driver for 2.6.13?

[Ravikiran G Thirumalai]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:08:32PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:33 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > Are drivers/sources available for Adaptec's AIC-94XX SAS controllers
> > someplace?  I am trying to run 2.6.13 on a x460.  Any pointers to the latest
> > driver sources appreciated.
> 
> There is no driver source for Adaptec SATA hardware.  You need to get
> the latest binary drivers from Adaptec support.

Someone from adaptec had posted the sources to linux-scsi some time back, but
unfortunately, it is a humongous 27 patch patchset, with some malformed
patches. Also one of the patches is missing (#6 ,or the patch numbering 
was bad). So I was wondering if folks from adaptec or other people stuck with
this adapter could point me to the sources, if it is available...

Thanks,
Kiran