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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter
Date: 31 Aug 1995 09:48:20 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <41t8l9$393@grovel.iafrica.com>, Mark Maunder <frankdm@iaccess.za> wrote:
>
> I'm sure that the answer to this has been posted, but is there any way
> at all to get Linux 1.2.x to recognize my AHA2940 controller (ASUS
> Mainboard with 1 gig drive). I've tryed various boot images and no
> luck. All I get is '0 SCSI hosts' at bootup.

    FreeBSD has supported the AHA-2940[W] PCI version for several
months now, but I remember reading that the Linux driver currently
supports the EISA version only.  Perhaps you just need a more current
kernel in the 1.3.xx range.
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org