Re: Adaptec 7860

Gary L. Hennigan (glhenni@cs.sandia.gov)
25 Aug 1998 14:38:03 -0600

Dean Henrichsmeyer <rdhenri@ilstu.edu> writes:
| On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 08:51:17AM -0500, Dean Henrichsmeyer wrote:
|
| > Anyone know if there is a driver in production or available somewhere
| > (which I haven't found) for an Adaptec 7860? It's an ultra2 controller
| > card that just came out. They seem to be putting them in Dell PowerEdge
| > 2300s which *used* to be nice Linux boxes, but at the moment, I can't find
| > a driver for them, nor have I heard talk about the developing of one.
|
| Sorry to follow up my own post, but I meant 7890, not 7860..

That 7860 had me stumped. Hadn't seen any mention of it on the aic7xxx
mailing list, now I know why! ;)

Anyway, there is limited support for the 7890. You have to patch the
kernel source (2.0.35 or 2.1.115) though with a patch from:

ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing

I've seen several people on the development list report success with
the pre7 patch and the 7890. I haven't followed the posts closely
though so you'd be better off asking specifics on the aic7xxx mailing
list. You subscribe to it by sending an email message to
Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG with the words

subscribe aic7xxx <your email address>

in the message body. Despite the list servers name, it is a Linux
group.

Gary

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