Re: Adaptec RAID driver?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 12:14:36 EST


> > 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.

Then I can recommend people use 3ware products instead 8)

Being able to do the xor in the firmware with raid 0.90 doesnt seem that hard,
we already pick from a choice of functions it just needs to per device not
global

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