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