On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 05:23, Anders Norrbring wrote:
Not more than a couple of weeks back, Phillipp Thomas said this as part of the thread [SLE] Installing SuSE 9.2 onto Adaptec HostRaid:
It's unfortunate that I cannot get hardware raid to work,
Complain to Adaptec who don't want to offer an open source driver or at least the specs to enable the community to come up with a driver.
Philipp
So it seems maybe Adaptec support is limited by their own policies. Seems a pity.
Yep.. They offer me to get the 2130SLP or 2230SLP instead. Which of course would make me swap motherboard as well since those two doesn't work in 32-bit PCI slots. I could fix that, but those controllers cost more than twice the cost of the motherboard. Geee..
They don't want to release newer drivers for any *nix, but they still update the Windows 2000, XP and 2003 drivers. Like any serious server owner would run a Windows server?
Anyway, there must be a solution to this somewhere, it's just the question of finding it.
It's called buying from another vendor. Seems to me that MS has bought off another supplier and forced them to no longer support linux. <opinion> It is a sorry state when one company has the power to tell another company how to run their business without owning any part of that business. How? By threatening to withhold specs, api's... </opinion> -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge