				AACRAID Driver for Linux

Introduction
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The aacraid driver adds support for Adaptec (http://www.adaptec.com)
OEM based RAID controllers.

It is important to note the amount of test time the 2.4.x driver
received. Though not a great deal has changed between 2.2 and 2.4
for this version, it has not recevied a great deal of test time.

A new driver version is in the works and that version will be
submitted to the standard distribution kernel. The previous
2.2 version was submitted but rejected due to the large
amount of code reduncdancy and NTisms. This driver was
initially ported from NT to Solaris and then to Linux.

The new version is being written on Unix for Unix and
should be much easier to read and a great deal cleaner.

Supported Cards/Chipsets
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	Dell Computer Corporation PERC 2 Quad Channel
	Dell Computer Corporation PERC 3/Di
	Dell Computer Corporation PERC 3/Si
	HP NetRAID-4M

Not Supported Devices
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	Any and All Adaptec branded raid controllers.

People
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	Adaptec Unix OEM Product Group

Mailing List
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please see http://domsch.com/linux for information
on mailing lists. There is both a development and
an announcment list. Due to the overwhelming amount
of mail I receive about this driver, I can not
answer questions individually and requests should
be directed to the list server. Thanks.

Modified by Brian Boerner February 2001
