Support for Adaptec AVA-2906?

[Bill Horne]

Jim,

Check the version of the PCI bus in your machine:  anything below v2 will cause
problems.  The aic78xx driver works on an AHA-2910BUi card, so it should do for
yours.

Bill Horne

Jim Elliott wrote:

> I bought an Adaptec 2906 host adapter to connect an Excrix VXA-1 tape
> drive to my sorely-in-need-of-backup home Linux box, assuming it would
> just work with Linux, being a common card.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm seeing
>
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
>
> when it boots.
>
> Is this card supported? If so, what do I need to do for it to be
> recognized? If not, is there a driver that I can use with it? I'd hate
> to have to try to return the card and cable. :-(
>
> I'm running RedHat 2.2.16, if that helps identify the version of the driver.
>
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