Brad Dameron wrote:

If you get this to work let me know. I tried for a week. Then purchased a LSI MegaRAID 320-2X card which works right out of the box. But look at http://i2o.shadowconnect.com. There is a driver there. I never used it because I didn't like the non-scsi emulation. I contacted Adaptec's support back in October and they said they were working on replacement i2o driver's. Then contacted then a few weeks ago and was told they no longer are working on them. Go figure. Now I have 4 wasted 2015S ZCR Raid cards.

Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:01, Charles Smith wrote:

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Hello, I have a dual Opteron 146 system which happens to have an Adaptec (DPT) SmartRAID V Controller that I have installed SuSE 9.2 (64bit) on.

Is there any way to build the 64bit kernel with the dpt_i2o module? I know !64BIT is a dependency, but the release notes for the module mention having at least some 64bit support.. Bueller?

I couldn't find a reference to someone doing this anywhere on the list or otherwise, so maybe it is impossible, but I would like to believe it isn't.

Thanks, -Charles Smith Systems Administration, Cycorp, Inc.

Ditto on if you get this to work. On my dual Opteron 148 using SuSE 9.1 I can't get my Adaptec RAID to work like it should. I was only able to get it to work with a specific 2.6 kernel. I contacted Adaptec and they basically said they would only support the kernel that shipped on the disk only. If I update the kernel, I was on my own. They also pointed the finger at SuSE, even though I've experienced the problem with other distros. The only kernels I got to work without problems was 2.4 kernel distros. If I can't get this resolved soon, I've decided to replace it with an LSI MegaRAID card as well and scrap ever using an Adaptec card again in anything. John Scott

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

Which release notes?

It has been marked !64BIT since it is really coded in such a way that it cannot work :-(

Perhaps release notes was not the right term. But the file I'm referring to is from the untarred SuSE 2.6.8-24.11 kernel, Documentation/scsi/dpti.txt, in the TODO section right after the version changes/release notes: * TODO: * Add 64 bit Scatter Gather when compiled on 64 bit architectures This lead me to believe it could be compiled in 64 bit, but you would not have the "64 bit Scatter Gather", whatever that is. Maybe it's just meant to be misleading to people like me who don't write device drivers all day. :) Thanks, -Charles Smith Systems Administration, Cycorp, Inc.