Re: Can't get Adaptec 2940 to work with RedHat 5.0

["Alex P. Madarasz, Jr." <madarasz erols com>]

At 08:00 PM 12/16/97 -0800, you wrote:
> John Franks wrote:
> 
> > I registered with RedHat and requested support, but they just said
> > "Sorry, Adaptec 2970 is not supported".  Officially they list it as
> > "partially supported", but I guess that means unsupported.
> 
> > Sorry, that should be an AHA-2940UW.
> 
> This peeves me, because I have a 2940 (plain) and it's working fine with
> 4.2.  But since yours works with 4.2 and not 5.0, there's a chance mine
> won't work with 5.0 either.  The Red Hat hardware compatibility list
> says:
> 
> > The following SCSI adapters are partially supported:
> > 
> > Adaptec AHA-294x(W/UW/D/WD), AHA-394x(W), AHA-398x(W);
> > Adaptec AIC-777x, AIC-785x, AIC-787x, AIC-788x, AHA-2920 (uses
> > Future Domain driver). 

Whelp, don't know if things have gotten any better re: 2940 support, but I
just checked Linux v2 HQ and the 2.0.33 kernel has just been released and
includes :

	- aic driver update - this gets rid of lock-ups for some
         people


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