Adaptec ARO-1130CA-C

Adaptec ARO-1130CA-C

[Turbo Fredriksson]

I have a motherboard (Intel DK440LX) with a built in SCSI controller
(AIC-7895). To this MB there's the possibility to have a RAIDport II
controller. I managed to get me a 'Adaptec ARO-1130CA-C' from eBay
because I couldn't in my wildest dreams believe that Linux didn't
support it - it's ancient!.

Woe my surprise when I discovered that it isn't! The latest information
I have about this - which is "no, it isn't supported" - come from 2002
or thereabouts. I have not been able to find ANYTHING later than 2002,
other than a note from Alan Cox (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=92185700225899&w=2)
stating that _maybe_ the new AACRAID _might_ support this. Looking at
the AIC7xxx documentation (in 2.4.24), I see the following, so clearly
it isn't supported by the aic7xxx driver, but my hopes are that AACRAID
DOES support it.


drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx:
----- s n i p -----
  Not Supported Devices
  ------------------------------
    Adaptec Cards
    ----------------------------
    AHA-2920 (Only the cards that use the Future Domain chip-set are not
              supported, any 2920 cards based on Adaptec AIC chip-sets,
              such as the 2920C, are supported)
    AAA-13x Raid Adapters
    AAA-113x Raid Port Card

    Motherboard Chipsets
    ----------------------------
    AIC-781x

    Bus Types
    ----------------------------
    R - Raid Port busses are not supported.

    The hardware RAID devices sold by Adaptec are *NOT* supported by this
    driver (and will people please stop emailing me about them, they are
    a totally separate beast from the bare SCSI controllers and this driver
    can not be retrofitted in any sane manner to support the hardware RAID
    features on those cards - Doug Ledford).
----- s n i p -----

It is NOT a 'AAA-113x', but I guess it's the same card with a different vendor.
So the question is: IS it (my RAIDport II card) supported by the aacraid driver,
in either 2.4 _or_ (if need be) the 2.6 kernels?

Re: Adaptec ARO-1130CA-C

[Matt Domsch]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:11:33PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I have a motherboard (Intel DK440LX) with a built in SCSI controller
> (AIC-7895). To this MB there's the possibility to have a RAIDport II
> controller. I managed to get me a 'Adaptec ARO-1130CA-C' from eBay
> because I couldn't in my wildest dreams believe that Linux didn't
> support it - it's ancient!.
> It is NOT a 'AAA-113x', but I guess it's the same card with a different vendor.
> So the question is: IS it (my RAIDport II card) supported by the aacraid driver,
> in either 2.4 _or_ (if need be) the 2.6 kernels?

To the best of my knowledge, no, aacraid does not support any of the
RAIDport cards.


-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

Re: Adaptec ARO-1130CA-C

[Turbo Fredriksson]

Quoting Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>:

> On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 09:52:47AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:11:33PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> > > So the question is: IS it (my RAIDport II card) supported by the
> > > aacraid driver, in either 2.4 _or_ (if need be) the 2.6 kernels?
> > 
> > To the best of my knowledge, no, aacraid does not support any of the
> > RAIDport cards.
> > 
> 
> That is correct, the AAA and ARO products are not supported by the
> aacraid nor dpti20 drivers, nor any other linux driver, open source or
> otherwise.

Is there a reason why not? Other than 'non-one have the time' etc that is...
I would _REALLY APRECIATE_ if someone took the time to write one...

I'm most liklely NOT up to it, I'm not that good a programmer (never done
any serious kernel hacking since 1.3 or thereabouts).


If someone cared, I could even lend the mb/raid card to whomever wanted/had
the time to do it...