As an update to everyone, I was able to get the AIC-7890 to run with a
different set of 5.2 discs. The disc that didn't work was a Redhat 5.2
included in "Redhat Linux Unleashed" ( a book). The discs that did work
were another set of 5.2 discs I got from cheapbytes.com
Strangely enough, the installation detected the card as AIC-7840 (there
where two other numbers, perhaps AIC-7740 adn something else). However,
seeing some aic7xxx driver used I'm not worried about the discrepency.
(now I just have to get PPP going and I'll be a functional Linux user)
Frank Schwieterman
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On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Steve Price wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. wrote:
>
> #
> # AIC 7890 is also supported in Redhat 5.2.
>
> It may work for some, but it doesn't work for everybody. I
> have no doubt the next RedHat disk will work for most if not
> all the boxes with 7890s, but I guarantee you that the box I
> worked on all weekend (40 out of 48 hours) had no chance of
> ever booting until some kind net soul gave me a Slackware
> boot disk he cooked up just for the occasion. You must have
> at least version 5.1.6 of the aic7xxx driver to work on a
> Dell PowerEdge 6300/400 and the 2.0.36 kernel only has version
> 5.1.2. Don't believe me? I have the scars to prove it. :)
>
> -steve
>
>
>
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