aic7xxx on floppy disk

[Dr. Guilherme Regis]

Dear Buchan Milne,

My card is an Adaptec APA-1480A Cardbus (PCMCIA).
I do not know about firmware. Would you please
explain how to update the firmware on the card ?
I would rather to use the new driver after updating
the firmware than using an old one.
I e-mailed Adaptec but answer was that they do not 
support a driver for APA-1480 under Linux. 
I am using Mandrake 8.1 or RHL7.2. 

thanks,
  Luiz

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Buchan Milne wrote:

> Which card are you running? Have you got a recent firmware? The newer 
> driver (default in RH and Mandrake) needs a firmware update on the card. 
> You can still use the old driver, I think by hitting F1, choosing 
> expert, and then using "modprobe aic7xxx_old" at some point. I am not 
> totally sure of this, since I took the approach of updating the firmware.
> 
> 
> If you are using Mandrake 8.1, you may also want to try booting from the 
> 2nd CD, which has 3 alternate images to boot from.
> 
> 
> 
> Here is a link to a discussion of this for Mandrake 8.1
> http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=788&lang=en
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan
> 
> Dr. Guilherme Regis wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone have information about how
> > to create an aic7xxx driver on a floppy disk?
> > I need it because RHL7.2's and Mandrake's 
> > aic7xxx drivers fail during the install. They
> > hang after the message: Loading aic7xxx...
> > I did not try FreeBSD because the only version
> > I have is 4.1, too old.
> > My system is: PII-266, Apa-1480, external HD
> > SCSI Seagte Cheetah 36GB.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> >   luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
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