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Adaptec AIC-7901A U320

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
2	3785	01-09-2005

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	None indicated	7.0

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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01-09-2005, 02:02 PM

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finegan_hcl

Registered: Sep 2003

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: 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

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01-09-2005, 02:07 PM

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initself

Registered: Feb 2003

Distribution: Slackware 10.2, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Posts: 38

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution:

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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