Adaptec AAA-13x RAID

[Michael Bilow]

I was actively involved with this and many of those messages might have
been written by me.  There is not and never will be 7810 support in Linux
while Adaptec provides documentation for it only under non-disclosure.

Note that new-style software RAID in the kernel is quite solid.  You would
not get hot-swap, but the basic advantages of RAID are there.  Considering
the prices of large IDE drives these days, using software RAID over a bank
of IDE drives is worth considering.  At today's prices, $500 would buy you
two Maxtor Diamondmax 80GB IDE drives which could be mounted on the two
channels of a standard motherboard for RAID-1.

-- Mike


On 2000-12-07 at 12:34 -0500, Matthew J. Brodeur wrote:

>    Does anyone know if there is or ever will be support for the Adaptec
> AAA series RAID controllers under Linux?  The one I have is the AAA-131SA,
> UW single channel SCSI.  The aic7xxx driver recognizes the SCSI channel
> (7880), but produces an unhappy message about not supporting  the array
> controller (7810).
>    I did some searching, but all I found were old messages indicating that
> no work was being done on a driver. Is this still the case?


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