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Re: Adaptec aha2920 support ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Austin)
Tue Dec 23 14:23:45 1997
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 18:56:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: Steve Austin <steve@edensfld.demon.co.uk>
To: "Jennings, James" <jimjen@ihcmail.ih.lucent.com>
cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Lucent%l=IHCMAIL-971223155909Z-678@ihcmail.ih.lucent.com>
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Jennings, James wrote:
> Folks -
>
> I know you've probably been over this before but please help me save my
> small investment. I purchased an Adaptec 2920 board so that I can
> dedicate a 550Mb SCSI drive to Linux on my Dell box without having to
> disturb my IDE drives. I did so with the believe, as is documented,
> that Linux supports the aha2920. Can someone point me in the right
> direction? I need to find a kernel or driver that I can modify my
> Yggrasil kernel to recognize the aha2920. Any pointers?
>
>
> Jim Jennings
> Lucent Technologies
> Bell Labs Innovations
> Wireless New Projects Development Dept.
> jimjen@lucent.com
>
I think you may be out of luck with this one. I've given up on the AHA
2920 and got a 2940 instead. The future domain driver nearly drives it
with a bit of tweaking, but I keep getting unexplained lockups that make
it too unreliable to use.
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Steve Austin steve@edensfld.demon.co.uk
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