Hello...
Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Guess this is a somewhat "tangencial" topic, but I know people on
> this list are very SCSI-knoweable, and I'm desperado...
>
> Of course, this controller is needed to build a SW RAID ;)
>
> Adaptec now sells only the AHA2940 UW Pro (note the *Pro*, as it
> means all similarities between the old AHA2940UW and this remain only in
> the name). This controller isn't detected by Linux.
>
> I've searched the web, mailing lists, driver documentation. even
> tried to contact the aic-7xxx driver maintainer. But with no avail by now.
>
> The funny thing is that the chips on this controller seems to be
> supported, the difference is that those chips are usually are into a
> motherboard, till now they weren't found on a standalone controller.
>
> I don't know if this implies a huge diference, or is a matter of
> tweaking the detection functions of the driver (maybe add a new id
> string?)
This is probably it. Note that this is not for the fainthearted. I
just looked at the source, it might need to ge in there in _several_
places.
Which kernel version?
Have you tried 2.3.x?
Have you tried 2.3.x ac whatever? The latest drivers are usually in
the ac series. You might not want to run them on a production server,
but you could get going with everything else. Then again I _have_ had
good experiences with 2.3.xac kernels.
The ac stuff is in ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/ ... /kernel/alan/ ...
>
> Have anybody came across this controller? Am I talking nosenses?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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