On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 02:27, John McBride wrote: > I was suprised to be doing hardware upgrades today while upgrading about > 15 boxes to FC2. Mostly a matter of going to spares and getting some > adaptec scsi cards and swapping out the advansys scsi cards. > > From what I can tell (doing web searches) the advansys scsi drivers are > no longer considered stable--one has to rebuild the kernel/modules using > "broken" drivers, which I won't do because I like keeping things stock > (and yum updatable). The driver builds and runs just fine from source actually, and *is* being maintained by the kernel hackers, it's just that it's lagging behind because it's old hardware that relatively few people use any longer, and it's not been fully converted to the 2.6 DMA architecture. I believe it's for this reason that it doesn't get built by default and is not included in Fedora kernels. > There are workarounds, like the dkms stuff, but > having used early versions of dkms for our nvidia cards, I'm very gun > shy of dkms--lots of problems with it, at least for me. I'm the person that's done the dkms package for the advansys driver. If you try it and have any problems I'd be very keen to get it fixed. Do you still use dkms for anything else (sounds like not)? If so, trying out the dkms build shouldn't cause any problems/conflicts for you. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
