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Re: support for AIC-7890 ????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hegstrom)
Thu Jun 18 13:28:46 1998
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 10:18:27 -0700
From: ehegstrom@agavesys.com (Eric Hegstrom)
To: Bill Bogstad <bogstad@pobox.com>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Here is a message I received a few days ago that I think summarizes the
whole 7890 situation (thanks to Michael Necaise) :
>
> No, this was a very good question!!!
>
> I just spent the past week trying to find this out myself.
> Unfortunately, the answer is no. I'm telling you this so you won't
> spend the next week banging your head against the wall and spending
> sleepless nights pouring over online documentation and source code (like
> I did). The Adaptec 7890 chipset is not supported at all and will not
> work with any of the current generation of aic7xxx drivers. ( I got
> this from the author of the driver himself)
>
> If you have a 7890 chip, for now, your best bet is to get an Adaptec
> 2940uw which uses a 7880 chip (not the 2940u2w - it uses the 7890) and
> turn off the 7890 controller via the BIOS setup.
>
> Here is Doug Ledford(one of the drivers authors) paraphrased response to
> me about the 7890:
>
> "Currently, none of the versions of the aic7xxx driver for linux support
> the 7890 chipset." ... "I'm currently starting my work to get U2W
> support in the aic7xxx driver going."
>
> Quothe "Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>"
>
> Good luck,
> ----michael necaise
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Bill Bogstad wrote:
>
> Is there any support for the AIC-7890 chipsets yet? (particularily for
> a 2.0 kernel). I know the current aic7xxx driver says it supports the 7880
> and 7895.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Bogstad
> bogstad@pobox.com
>
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