Adaptec 2930U Experience

["Jim Rosenberg" <jr_ml_(_at_)_rossint_(_dot_)_net>]

I have an Advansys SCSI card for which I'm looking for an 
alternative.  There is a lingering bug in the adv driver which plops 
me into the debugger every time I get a tape error.  This is starting 
to get old.  (The st driver apparently times out, and then there 
seems to be some confusion about deallocating the ccb; either the st 
driver or the adv driver seems to do it, then an "extra" interrupt 
comes in from my tape drive -- an HP 4/8 DAT [am not at the location 
of this system, so I don't have the exact model number handy.]  When 
this happens kaboom, the kernel panics because it doesn't have an 
allocated ccb.  I posted about it many moons ago, with full dmesg 
etc., and the driver maintainer, Ken Westerback, has been very 
helpful, but so far we haven't been able to pin it down.)

I'm looking at getting an Adaptec 2930U, which if I parse the FAQ 
correctly is supported.  I'd appreciate hearing pro/con from anyone 
using this card.

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Jim Rosenberg
Ross Mould
E-mail: jrosenberg_(_at_)_rossint_(_dot_)_net