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07-23-2012

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Hi Folks,

First introduction to unix was CTIX (Convergent Technology) and then NDIX (Norsk Data), way back when I was an engineer in 1983.

First introduction to Linux was in 1993, when I tried to install kernel 0.97 on a Dell - 76 X 5.25 floppies and couldn't get it working so gave up for about a year and installed one of the very first versions of Caldera on the same machine some months later.

With an Adaptec 1540 Scsi card, 2x512Mb Hitachi Scsi HDD and a 525Mb QIC tape - used a file server.

This server ran without a reboot until just after the millenium when it was scrapped!

I've just installed Solaris 11 on one of our x86 boxes and am about to do the same on our test M4000 and T5220 before we start work on the bigger MX000 boxes - talk about "pointy clicky" - sheeeeeh!

Dave

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aac

aac(7D) 							      Devices								   aac(7D)

NAME

       aac - SCSI HBA driver for Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller

DESCRIPTION

       The  aac plain SCSI host bus adapter driver is a SCSA-compliant nexus driver that supports the Adaptec 2200S/ 2120S SCSI RAID card and Dell
       PERC 3Di SCSI RAID controller.

       The aac driver ports from FreeBSD and only supports basic RAID disk I/O functions.

DRIVER CONFIGURATION

       There are no user configurable parameters available. Please configure your hardware through BIOS.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |x86			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

FILES

       /kernel/drv/aac

	   32-bit ELF kernel module

       /kernel/drv/aac.conf

	   Configuration file. (Contains no user-configurable options).

SEE ALSO

       prtconf(1M), attributes(5), scsi_hba_attach(9F), scsi_sync_pkt(9F), scsi_transport(9F), scsi_device(9S), scsi_inquiry(9S), scsi_pkt(9S)

       Small Computer System Interface-2 (SCSI-2)

SunOS 5.10							    18 Aug 2004 							   aac(7D)