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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec AIC7850 Date: 7 May 1996 20:31:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4mobul$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4md4pg$3gi@lynet.lynet.de> <4mgi1m$mkb@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4mkft7$me1@lynet.lynet.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E uweg@gfsfs.gfs-hl.de (Uwe Gruentjes) wrote: > > AIC-7850 hmm..., i can't really remember that number. What is it? > PCI-to-SCSI host adapters, which are referred to collectively as the > Adaptec 7800 Family host adapters: > > - AHA-2940 PCI-to-Fast SCSI > - AHA-2940W PCI-to-Fast and Wide Single-ended SCSI > - AHA-2944W PCI-to-Fast and Wide Differential SCSI > - AHA-3940 MultiChannel SCSI-to-PCI > - AHA-3940W MultiChannel Wide SCSI-to-PCI > - AIC-7850 single-chip PCI-to-Fast SCSI > - AIC-7870 single-chip PCI-to-Fast and Wide SCSI > > Therefore as you can see this controller is PCI and should be AHA-2940 > compatible (?) except that it's a single-chip version. > suhman@zelax.zgrad.su (Sergey Suhman) suggested by eMail that 2.1R > doesn't support this controller. He told me to try 2.2-960501-SNAP ... Ah, yes, i remember that some of the newer controllers aren't supported by stock 2.1R. When in doubt, it's perhaps the best to ask the maintainer of the ahc driver. You should also not that he back-ported his changes from -current to -stable, means that you can use them even in a ``less development-like'' system. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)