* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 05. 2003 15:27]:
> try the compact kernel it's on the debian 3.0 install CD. view the
> help in the boot loader to figure out how to load it. Last I checked
> the stock kernel did not support adaptec SCSI cards w/o loading
> modules. Not certain why I can only assume that the adaptec scsi
> driver can interfere with other drivers(I've read in the past that it
> did) so they took it out for that particular kernel.
If they did, it was likely to have been somewhere between frozen/testing
woody and woody's release. I installed fresh in 2002 using floppies,
and the default 2.2 kernel supported my aic7890 perfectly. I'm running
2.4.18 currently:
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.4
<Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39102LW Rev: 0005
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:A:0): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39173LW Rev: 6246
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:A:1): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
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