Hello,
I have an Advansys ASC3550 SCSI based chipset that works with SME 6.x. Unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore with SME 7.x (can't install, it asks for a floppy driver that I don't have)
It's plugged in to an SCSI CDRom and to a 19GB SCSI Harddrive.
I searched a lot of informations on the internet, and I found this :
http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/AdvanSysThe Advansys driver is flagged as BROKEN in the Linux 2.6 kernel series. Those drivers only can be built if CONFIG_BROKEN is enabled while configuring the kernel. This is not the case with the CentOS kernels (neither the rebuilt upstream kernel nor the kernel from the centosplus repository). Even if you build the Kernel for yourself you shouldn't enable broken drivers, as this probably will cause system instability.
The advansys driver doesn't seem to be maintained anymore in the 2.6 linux kernels.
There is no solution for getting these cards to work under CentOS 4
So, as I am not going to spend money for my old computer, the question is : do I have to throw my old working hardware to trash ?
Or is there any chance that my hardware will be supported in a future release ?
Any other solution would be appreciated !
Thanks in advance for answers
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