Re: Status of Adaptec Hostraid support.

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 02:36:37PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I'm trying, rather unsuccesfully, to get FC1 AMD64 installed on a dual 
> Opteron with an Adaptec 29320-R card.

The raid features on the hardware raid are not open source supported.

> It looks to me like Adaptec Hostraid is not supported.  This is a surprise; 
> up until now Adaptec hardware has a good track record of Linux support, 
> going back for years.

The raid card issues go back years actually - AHA hostraid stuff like
the IDE raid hasn't been Linux supported, smarter stuff has been well
supported.