[5802] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: support for Adaptec AIC-7890
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Price)
Sat Feb 6 11:59:05 1999
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:23:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: "F. Schwieterman" <fschwiet@u.washington.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901301309140.91102-100000@dante09.u.washington.edu>
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, F. Schwieterman wrote:
# Looking at the Hardware HOWTO, I see that Linux does not yet support the
# Adaptec AIC-7890. This is the SCSI card I have, and since its part of my
# motherboard I'm pretty much stuck with it.
#
# My question- does anyone know when Linux may support the AIC-7890? Or
# is there a work-around available I could use today?
Actually it does already, but if you are using a 2.0.36 kernel
you will need version 5.1.6 (at least) of the aic7xxx driver.
You can get the patches here:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/aic/
ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/
-steve
# Thanks much
#
# Frank Schwieterman
# fschwiet@u.washington.edu
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