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Re: DPT I2O driver?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Apr 7 21:45:19 2000

To: jfbeam@bluetopia.net (Ricky Beam)
Date:	Sat, 8 Apr 2000 02:41:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu,
	linux-i2o@dpt.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10004071444320.23096-100000@beaker> from "Ricky Beam" at Apr 07, 2000 02:59:30 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

> for their latest line of I2O based RAID controllers...  I thought to myself,
> "hmm, 'modprobe i2o_scsi' ??"  Of course that didn't work (2.3.33) but
> it was promising -- ^C stopped the spewage of failure messages and shutdown
> the RAID card!

The earlier 2.3.x i2o code broke on the DPT, mostly because the DPT was very
fussy about what it was sent. DPT sent me a board and our driver now handles
the DPT card (i2o_block btw for the disks on it)

2.2.15pre has some i2o bugs to nail yet, and the DPT stuff seems ok for block
but not scsi 


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