AHA-2930 with Linux?

[Doug Ledford]

On 04-Dec-97 Brad Dewey wrote:
>A James Lewis wrote:
>> 
>> I have yet to hear about a 2930, what are the specs?  The 2920 is a
>> actually a Future Domain chipset and seems to work OK...
>> 
>Specs? well, I have yet to find ANY spec sheets that came with the card.
>I actually had to call Adaptec sales and pretend like I wanted to buy
>one to find out what the chipset is. They say it's not a 7850 but a
>7860. And try as I might I have yet to get Linux to recognize it. They
>said that otherwise it's basically like the 2940AU except it's setup for
>windows and dos. Then again this was some sales lady who was having
>trouble pronouncing Linux!!!  I'm hoping this isn't adaptec's version of
>the winmodem. Yank out half the chips and set it up as software.  right
>now it's working great in windows *puke*. 

It should be simply a matter of getting the devide ID from the PCI card and
adding it to the driver in the proper location.  We already handle 7860
chipsets, we jut need to add this card as any other 7860 chipset we might
find.

>
>Is there a HOWTO for aic7xxx's ? Would someone be willing to email me
>one or point me to a URL? I can't seem to find one if there is.
>
>Thanks again
>Brad Dewey

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E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford at dialnet.net>
Date: 04-Dec-97
Time: 14:34:35
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