Adaptec AIC7890 - AIC7xxxx (ahc) driver for Linux Slackware 3.5

[Ben Lavender]

Please can you you tell me where I can get hold of a driver for an Adaptec
AIC7890 SCSI on Linux Slackware 3.5.
There seems to be a version at:
ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing/ but I don't have access to
a C compiler because I need the driver to install the O/S.

I'm trying to install Slackware 3.5 on a new Dell PowerEdge Server 2300. It
has an on-board AIC-7890 (for the hard-disk) and AIC-7860 (for the CD-Rom)
on booting Slackware using the aha2x4x.s image. It detects the AIC-7860 and
the CD-ROM but can't detect the
AIC-7890 and  harddisk. The harddisk is on SCSI No. # 0. It's a Seagate
ST34572wC Ultra2-SE

The errors I get are in the attached file (errors.txt)

Please help - I'd be very greatful if you could.
Thanks

Ben ( ben.lavender at cygnet.co.uk )


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Lavender <ben.lavender at cygnet.co.uk>
To: gibbs at FreeBSD.org <gibbs at FreeBSD.org>; ken at plutotech.com
<ken at plutotech.com>
Date: 01 August 1998 12:28
Subject: Adaptec Aic7xxx driver (ahc)


>Please can you tell me where I can get hold of this driver.
>
>Also do you know some kind sould who could tell me how to install it on
>Linux Slackware 3.5.
>I don't have access to a C compiler because can't install the O/S without
>the driver. A "Catch 22".
>Please help
>
>Ben ( ben.lavender at cygnet.co.uk )
>
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(scsi0) <Apaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 6/0
(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 2/555 SCBs
(scsi0) Bios enabled, IO Port 0xe800, IRQ14
(scsi0) IO Memory at 0xf9ffe000, MMAP Memory at 0x4805000
(scsi0) Reseting Channel
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
(scsi0) Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.14/3.2.4
scsi0 : 1 host.
(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Synchronous at 20.0MHZ, offset 15.
Vendor: NEC       Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:464   Rev: 1.05
Type: CD-ROM                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected 1 SCSI CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total.
Partition check:
(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 255 during SELTO
(scsi0:-1:-1:-1)  Referenced SCB 255 not valid during SELTO
SCSISEQ = 0x12 SEQADDR = 0xa SSTAT0 = 0x10 SStAT1 = 0x8a