Re: Kernel 2.6.5 - Compaq Fibre Channel 64-bit/66Mhz HBA

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:46 +0200, Bolke de Bruin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The company I work for is investigating a switch from Windows 2000 to a 
> Linux based setup for its databases. Because of a dependancy on a third 
> party we need to settle on kernel 2.6.5. 


kernel.org 2.6.5 or some vendor 2.6.5? If the later.. you should ask the
vendor as well

> So the basic question is. Does this controller work on kernel 2.6.5?
> 

in kernel.org 2.6.5 the answer is no; it hasn't been adjusted to the 2.6
kernel really (heck hardly to the 2.4 kernel) so isn't reliable at all
for business use (or in fact any use). Think "no error handling" and
things like that.


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