Re: Adaptec aic79xx driver status

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:34:43PM +0200, Andrea Carpani wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > Because it's broken in various ways.  We're working with Adaptec to get
> > the fixes merged but not the bogus parts.  But as Justin didn't cooperate
> > the new engineer in his position has a hard time to untangle the mess, so
> > it'll take a while.
> 
> I'm trying it right now and it looks as if the freeze errors are gone.
> What do you mean by "broken in various ways"? Would it be unwise to use 
> it in a production environment?

we had problem reports for various cards, and lots of problems with error
handling during load and unload.  If it properly loads and unloads for you
and the kernel driver doesn't work just use it.  We hope to have a more
update driver in 2.6.10.
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