Re: tlug: Driver for AHA-2940U2W

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> >>>>> Masanori Smiley Omote writes:  (on 14 Oct 98)
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Does anyone know the availability of the driver for Adaptec
> > AHA-2940U2W for now or near future?  U2W doesn't seem to be supported
> > so far.  Did circumstances change?
> 
> The AIC-7890 is apparently *very* different from the AIC-7880 -- the old
> drivers just won't work.
> 
> Unfortunately, this means that in addition to the Adaptec AHA-2940U2W,
> many new motherboards with on-board "u2w" (LVD) scsi won't work either.
> 
> Not much point in buying and LVD adaptor unless you've got LVD disks,
> cabling, etc.  "Ultra-2" LVD will fall back to single-ended signalling
> if you attach non-LVD disks, but what's the point?  I'd recommend
> avoiding the 2940U2W for quite a while yet.

kernel 2.0.35 + aic7xxx patch 5.1.2 seems to support them.  I have one
here, and I can get it to recognize the drives and mount them.

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