John Scarpa wrote: > First a very big thanks to all of u! I have been suffering a serious > lack of sleep problem lately.. i should have noticed that by whom has > been submitting the past 500 fixes and updates! > > Quick question, is the driver still consider experimental?? Very much so. The SAS bits are fairly stable nowadays, but the rest is still YMWV. :) > the guys i > work with say it doesn't support sata drives and it's still experimental SATA support is under development. Patches exist in the git tree here: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/aic94xx-sas-2.6.git;a=summary > so don't use it. And i can't find anything on the state of this driver. > > PS. I should have said i dropped that aic94xx-seq.fw in > /lib,/lib/firmware,/lib64,/lib64/firmware (still have yet to get this > sucker to work) Yes, you need a udev that's new enough to know how to handle the firmware loading interface. Typically, udev will load firmware from /lib/firmware, though I suppose that depends on the distribution. Not sure if RH/Fedora support fw loading, newer Ubuntu-E and SuSE do... --D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
