Re: Adaptec RAID driver?

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 12:09:55 EST


On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I was asked a question: Is there a driver for the Adaptec Array 1000U2
>
> No and if this is the Adaptec IDE raid the feedback I've had has been
> pretty negative on getting open source drivers. Having said that Adaptec
> have opensourced their driver for some of the aac scsi raid cards

Not until the is an API bypass of XOR in md.c that allows for RAID 5
calculations to be redirected to the HOST will this ever be adopted.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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