Adaptec dpti driver included in 5.0.7?

From: Bob Bailin (72027.3605_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:51:29 GMT

Is Adaptec's dpti driver included in the final release of 5.0.7?

I have a tech support person who insists that it is, and I distinctly
remember that I had to use a BTLD when I installed this system
back in June. I know I could easily check this by booting from
the installation CD and seeing what appears in the hardware
inventory during ISL, but it's extremely inconvenient to bring
down the system at this time.

For the curious, the problem I'm trying to resolve with Adaptec
is that the 3210S caching RAID controller doesn't seem to be
caching much of anything except speculative read-ahead
sectors. Doing a simple cat somefile > /dev/null results in
just as much disk activity the 2nd, 3rd & 4th times as the
first time around. There should be no disk activity whatsoever
on an otherwise idle system (and we're talking disk activity,
not controller activity) since the read request should be
satisfied by the 256MB controller cache, as it always had under
5.0.5 and earlier incarnations. Cache statistics under Adaptec's
Storage Manager also appear to be flawed.

Bob

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