Re: 2940UW

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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Well here's the truth: Many 2940 series cards are supported, but a few
just don't work with anything but the latest versions of the kernel
(2.0.36 pre series).  It's mostly dependant on the BIOS on the card, so
two identical cards with different BIOS's may give different results.  
Your best bet is to go to a working system, compile a monolithic kernel
version 2.0.36pre10 supporting the 7xxx chip and using that on your 2940uw
system.  

If you need help compiling a kernel check out the LDP, under Kernel-HOWTO
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/

I know it sucks, but you can't blame Red Hat- Adaptec only just recently
released programming specs for their cards which has hindered the
development greatly.

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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Loay Oweis wrote:

> hello I have an HP E50 with an adaptec scsi 4.2 gb drive using the aha
> 2940UW controllers
> 
> I am installing rh 5.1 and I was able to create my filesystems, choose
> which servers to install and even format my swap space. It then hangs
> when creating the next partitions. It essentially times out and resets
> the scsi bus.
> 
> According to red hat hte aha-294uw is supported.
> 
> Please let me know what needs to be done to solve this
> 


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