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Adaptec AIC-7901A U320
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Description: Although Adaptec does provide the source code for this driver, the 2.4 kernel does not recognize this device even when booting with an AIC-79xxx compatable boot disk (Slackware 9.1).
Keywords: U320 SCSI Integrated Controller
/sbin/lspci output: 03:03.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AIC-7901A U320 w/HostRAID (rev 03)
Chipset: AIC-7901A


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Old 01-09-2005, 01:02 PM   #1
finegan_hcl
 
Registered: Sep 2003
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7

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If I'm not mistaken this works under the aacraid driver which wasn't in the stock slack 9.1 kernel.

Cheers,

Finegan
 
Old 01-09-2005, 01:07 PM   #2
initself
 
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Slackware 10.2, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
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And it even looks like Dell themselves understand this to be the case and are pointing to alternative Slackware kernels precompiled with this driver!

http://linux.dell.com/distributions.shtml

Thanks for tip, my friend!
 




  



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