Nope, we do this on a couple of machines and haven't had any problems,
Charles fancy fixing this one ? :-)


> I plan to run NetBSD on a box with two Adaptec 2940 SCSI controllers.
> The controllers I have are detected by the NetBSD/i386-1.1 kernel
> as having an unrecognised vendor/product code 0x9004/0x8178, whereas
> the kernel sources say:
> 
> aic7870.c:#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_ADAPTEC_2940    0x71789004ul
> 
> Notice the difference between 8178 and 7178.
> 
> Am I likely to run into trouble if I just teach the kernel to
> treat device code 8178 identically to 7178?
> 


Neil.
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