Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:24:54 -0400 From: george <george@ied.com> To: Travis Oliphant <Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, honza@ied.com Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC7890 chip support on ASUS P2B-LS MB Message-ID: <35A6A2C5.DBC90D8@ied.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.980710151547.2636A-100000@us15>
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Travis, Unfortunately, I am out of home for the next 10 days. With the pace the driver is beiong developed, it seems that by the time I get home all the issues will be ironed out. I have Fujitsu Fast-Wide HDD , Plextor 32x CD-ROM and Yamaha CD-burner as my SCSI devices. I wonder if the HDD will be visible with the WIDE support disabled? Many thanks for your reply. George Travis Oliphant wrote: > George, > > I have the same motherboard with a SCSI drive and I just got it to > work. I have been trying for the past week to get > it to work. Currently, the support for the AIC7890 chipset is in the > pre-release stage. Doug Leford is the maintainer at > ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx. There is a 7890-Status file and > a testing directory where you can get patches against a "clean" 2.0.34 > kernel (i.e. the RedHat kernel-source-2.0.34-1.i386.rpm which already has > patches applied may give you some "already applied" messages during > patching). > > I got it to work following the advice of a previous message on this > mailing list: disable the SCSI BIOS and the Wide Negotiation on the > channels with devices --- using regular BIOS Setup and Ctrl-A SCSI device > setup at boot time. Then, I patched the kernel with Doug's pre1 and pre2 > patches and recompiled with SCSI support built in to the kernel. > > The system is booting off of a small 212MB IDE hard drive. As it booted > it recognized the controller and then the drive and I've had a working > drive all day... Hooray!! I don't think it can run at full 80MB/s > transfer rates, but then again the hard drive is not nearly that fast, so > it's not a problem. > > Now we'll see if I can get the system to boot off of the SCSI drive... > > Let me know if you need further advice. Good luck. > > Travis Oliphant > > On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, George Vicherek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Got that beautiful ASUS P2B-LS motherboard with integrated Adaptec > > AIC7890 chip on board. Anyone developing driver for that one? Any > > advices on modifications of the existing AIC7895 driver? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > George > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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