Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 07:03:09 -0500 From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> To: Eric Noulard <E.Noulard@adulis.fr> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2906 and 2904CD supported? Message-ID: <36E3BC7D.86B943F1@redhat.com> References: <36E39CEE.96885871@adulis.fr>
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Eric Noulard wrote:
>
> I wonder if the adaptec 2904CD and 2906 scsi cards
> are supported by the aic7xxx driver under linux?
Both should work fine with the aic7xxx driver (they are both 7856
chipset based).
> My trouble comes from the fact I wasn't able to find
> on which chipset is based the 2906 card from the adaptec web site.
> Moreover I didn't find the 2904CD on the adaptec Web site but
> I just saw it last saturday (may be the vendor mispelled teh
> reference?!??)
>
> I wonder if I should buy one of this SCSI card for my external
> CD-RW Recorder (Yamaha 4416S). I already have a 2940UW with one wide
> external
> scsi disk attached and I read that it wasn't a good idea to mix
> wide (the disk) and narrow (the CD-RW) external devices on the same
> line?
> (I don't want to put the CD-RW on the narrow internal connector of the
> 2940).
>
> Anyone knows more informations about thoses cards?
Both of the cards you listed would work fine. They probably have
different connectors on the outside of the cards though, so I would pick
whichever one has the connector that is easier to connect to your CD-RW
in terms of easy to find cabling.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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