[Gllug] Adaptec 7896 drivers

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Thu Dec 13 10:17:01 UTC 2001



On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:51, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 19:56, Craig la Buscagne wrote:
> > Does anyone have an idea where I can source Linux drivers (Red Hat &.x) for
> > the Adaptec AIC7896 SCSI adaptor? 
> 
> What? An AIC7896 driver? In the kernel?
> In the file aic7xxx_pci.c ?
> At this time in the morning? 
> With Linus' reputation?
> 
> 
> Craig, sorry if I'm raving as usual, and you have already
> found this in the kernel config:
> 
> 
> Adaptec AIC7xxx support
> CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX
>   This driver supports all of Adaptec's PCI based SCSI controllers (not
>   the hardware RAID controllers though) as well as the aic7770 based
>   EISA and VLB SCSI controllers (the 274x and 284x series).  This is
>   an Adaptec sponsored driver written by Justin Gibbs.  It is intended
>   to replace the previous aic7xxx driver maintained by Doug Ledford
> since
>   Doug is no longer maintaining that driver.

If you are trying to install Red Hat 7.1 using this board I believe
there is a documented bug in the install.  7.0 and 7.2 works well with
it.

Kind regards
Xander
> 
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