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Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID Controller Driver for Linux
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Version 2.0.0 for Linux 2.0.36
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Version 2.1.0 for Linux 2.1.130
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BETA TEST RELEASE 3
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23 November 1998
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Leonard N. Zubkoff
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Dandelion Digital
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Copyright 1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff
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RELEASE NOTES
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o The error reporting functionality has been greatly improved. The driver now
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queries the controller every 7 seconds to collect status information, and
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reports on progress rebuilding logical drives at most every 60 seconds.
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The status of all physical disk drives is also queried as well as updates
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to the controller's internal error log. This functionality allows for
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more accurate reporting of the cause of drive failures when they occur.
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o The production model AcceleRAID controllers are now supported. Mylex had
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unfortunately provided me with pre-production AcceleRAID units which differed
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in critical ways from the production models, and so the Beta2 driver release
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did not function properly.
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o New releases of the Linux Symbios driver now contain code to notice when
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motherboard Symbios chips are controlled by an AcceleRAID and to not
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interfere with operation of the AcceleRAID board. A patch is also available
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for the Symbios driver version 3.0i.
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o A bug was corrected where functionality necessary for swapping to files was
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not implemented.
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Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID Controller Driver for Linux
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Version 2.0.0 for Linux 2.0.36
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Version 2.1.0 for Linux 2.1.126
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BETA TEST RELEASE 2
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19 October 1998
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Leonard N. Zubkoff
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Dandelion Digital
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lnz@dandelion.com
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Copyright 1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff
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RELEASE NOTES
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o The Mylex AcceleRAID 250 (DAC960PTL-1) and AcceleRAID 200 (DAC960PTL-0)
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models are now supported. Please note that if you use an AcceleRAID 200,
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or an AcceleRAID 250 configured to use the Symbios chips on the motherboard,
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then the Symbios driver must not be included in the Linux kernel. This
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restriction will be removed in a future release of these drivers.
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o This version of the DAC960 driver uses a more efficient interface for
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communicating with the AcceleRAID 250, AcceleRAID 200, DAC960PJ, and
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DAC960PG models.
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o A bug was corrected where the cache was not flushed at shutdown on systems
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with a DAC960 Logical Drive mounted as the root file system. This only
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affected systems where the DAC960 Logical Drive was configured for write back
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operation without a battery backup unit installed and the system was powered
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off within a couple of seconds of system shutdown.
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