[elrepo] Request aic7xxx for RHEL 7

[Konstantin Olchanski]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:00:49PM -0400, Clark Hale wrote:
> 
> I'd like to request packaging for the aic7xxx module for RHEL7.  
> 
> My specific device is:
> 03:00.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AHA-2940/2940W / AIC-7871 [9004:7178]
> 
> I'm fairly certain this is in the aic7xxx module, which was deprecated in RHEL7 :(
> 

My information is that the stock Adapter driver module had been non-functional in RHEL6 - 
when connected to a DLT/SDLT tape robot, it would go into an infinite loop
negotiating scsi speed and doing scsi resets.

To use the DLT/SDLT robot I have to maintain a RHEL5 machine (with PCI slots).

I think this problem is well documented in (unlooked-at) bug reports in the red hat bugzilla.

So ELREPO should probably package the latest (last?) proprietary driver from Adaptec (?).

I still have the need to read DLT/SDLT tapes, have the PCI SCSI adapters and machines with PCI slots
so if the driver is packaged, I will test it at least against Exabyte/DAT/DLT/SDLT
tape drives (no SCSI disks remaining here, sorry).

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