I run a lot of SuperMicro boxes. Most of mine are 6013P variants, with
the same Adaptec chipset. I haven't had any problems with CentOS
supporting these controlers.
jrw
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:50:57PM -0500, Ryan Lane wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:08:53 -0400, Joe Polk <listuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've had some very odd Adaptec SCSI problems in the past (that sound
> very similar to what you are describing). Not sure if this is related
> or not, because it's a different card. The solution to my problem was
> to run an SMP kernel, even though I didn't have any SMP machine.
> Something with the uniprocessor kernel caused problems very similar to
> what you are describing.
>
> And my problem was not just with CentOS or RedHat....it was the same
> with all linux distros (kernels 2.4 and 2.6).
>
> This problem sucks because almost all installers that I know of use a
> uniprocesser kernel. Depending on how bad you want it, you could
> create a custom installer that uses an SMP kernel. That's what I had
> to do.
>
> -Ryan
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