[olug] Re: Adaptec 1542

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Question:  You mentioned using the Adaptec 2930 (which is the
> card they sell at Best Buy).  That card only supports the
> following operating systems:
>
> Operating Systems: (from Adaptec web site)
> Windows NT., Windows. 95/98, Windows. 3.1, DOS

Add Linux to that.

You need to keep in mind that, often, the manufacturer will list only what
they can support you on if you call with trouble, not what it'll work
with.

I have a 2930 in here in a Linux box.  Works great.  It's basically a 2940
without the wide SCSI support.

> That is why I am disgusted with best buy.  They sell a few
> linux distro's yet they carry heaps of hardware that only
> works with MS winblowze, like this SCSI card, their cheap winmodems
> and many of their NIC's.  (i dont buy anything there anymore)

Actually, *every* *single* ethernet card currently sold by Best Buy will
work with Linux.

Whether or not the drivers on your installation CD will support the
ethernet card in question is entirely another question :)

> So I am curious to know if you are using the 2930 under linux
> and if so, where did you find the driver?

Umm... the aic7xxx driver?

If you check the sources it'll say in menuconfig which cards are
supported.  I quote (from 2.2.17):

CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX:

This is support for the various aic7xxx based Adaptec SCSI controllers.
These include the 274x EISA cards; 284x VLB cards; 2902, 2910, 293x, 294x,
394x, 3985 and several other PCI and motherboard based SCSI controllers
from Adaptec. It does not support the AAA-13x RAID controllers from
Adaptec, nor will it likely ever support them. It does not support the
2920 cards from Adaptec that use the Future Domain SCSI controller chip.
For those cards, you need the "Future Domain 16xx SCSI support" driver.

> How did you configure it and get it to work with your CDR, under
> linux?

Worked out of the box, like so:
1) compile & install aic7xxx driver from kernel sources
2) "modprobe aic7xxx" as root.

Sorry, don't have a CDR.

> The 2940 is more expensive, so I went with the 2920 which is supported
> by linux and works quite well for a PCI SCSI card. Although my old ISA
> SCSI card with the Phillips CDR still seems to be the most reliable
> one.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

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