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Re: You OVER-SIMPLIFIED the hardware options!

On April 11th, 2002 Deanna (not verified) says:

This is to address the issue of the above claim that Adaptec does not support Linux.

I am the Linux driver author/maintainer for the RAID products at Adaptec. Adaptec has Linux as a tier 1 OS. We actively support the Linux OS for all of our RAID and SCSI products. A few years ago this was not the case, but it has been for the last 2 years. We provide drivers, Q/A our products, and provide tech support for these products under Linux.

The 2400A was not a DPT product. It always has been an Adaptec product. Adaptec did use the DPT firmware and the i2o interface. It has produced many new products from that interface. The Linux driver (dpt_i2o) is now part of the generic kernel.

We are also now producing new products based on a new firmware. While it is not the i2o interface, all of these products do use a common interface allowing the same driver to work with them all (aacraid). Adaptec is supporting and helping maintain the aacraid driver that is in the generic kernel.

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