Messages in this thread | | | From | (G.W. Wettstein) | Date | Sat, 13 Dec 1997 08:45:50 +0000 | Subject | Support for Adaptec 7895. |
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Good morning to everyone on the list. I hope that this note finds everyone's day starting out well.
Thursday afternoon we plopped down a nice new dual PII-300 with 256Meg of RAM on our test bench at the university. This machine is to be a prototype machine for demonstrating the feasibility of INTEL/Linux based machines as active members of our server farm.
The machine itself is a GW2K G6-300 based on the INTEL motherboard. I was apprehensive about the onboard SCSI and my concerns were well justified. We quickly found out about the incompatibility problems between the Adaptec 7895 chipset and the current aic7xxx drivers.
I am querying the list to determine if anyone is working on drivers for this beast or has pointers on a good place to start. We have poked around a bit and it would appear that the FreeBSD group has had some luck with this chipset but I can't track down any leads to code sources.
I would be more than happy to work on this or provide access to a machine if anyone has something ready to go. Thanks much for any information that may be forthcoming. I need to make a decision as to whether or not to disable the onboard controller and go with a Buslogic card which is probably what I should have done in the first place.
Best wishes for a nice weekend to everyone.
Greg
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