Shalom Eri, >From what I understand, Promise will only support 2.4.18 and only Red Hat Linux. And from the emails I saw they will never be resources to be compatible with Linux because they refuse the "open source" system. Personally I would have thought that their RAID technology would be mainly hardware and so releasing the driving software would not show any patented technology but it does not sound that way. Anyway, if you wish to stay RH7.3 and 2.4.18 forever (or until Promise change their views) then you can use their released driver otherwise I would suggest that you try to make this works on the kernel so you can move on with the linux future kernels. As for yuor software, I would think that the Kernel released won't affect them except maybe if they reference specific kernel function but I would imagine that the Linux group try their upmost to be backward compatible... Regards Yoram -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eri Rubin Sent: 18 August 2002 13:11 To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: why not use the promise scusi emulation driver ? I have the promise on board and installed redhat 7.3 with the promise driver ... is there such a prefromance diffrence that i should try to move to the native driver ? and also is it in 2.4.18 ? cause i have some programes installed wich i would imagen give me some trouble with switching the kernal... Thanx Eri _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
