raid controller recommendation

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> I beg to differ.  The aic79xx drivers have been in somewhat of a drift,
> either due to work being done on them at adaptec that isn't making it
> upstream or what, I don't know, but the quality seems to have gone a 
> lot downhill.

yes, months ago the upstream driver was a bit old. But _today_ they are
very well maintained.

LSI SYM-2 driver is _very_ bad maintained, the 2.4 maintainer is
_missing_ since several months. And latest patch, one year old, is still
without to apply!!. LSI MPT fusion also has problems, and the driver
is being updated slowly.

>  The megaraid drivers however have gotten quite nice as 
> of late.  They're about the only u320 solution we'll look at these 
> days.

megaraid kernel driver had problems too. Until 2.4.23 the kernel brought
a very old version.

Adaptec aicxxx and LSI MegaRAID boards are the best SCSI and RAID
solutions for LiNUX _today_, IMO.