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Message-ID: <36266DB8.4A02FC8A@staff.portal.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:48:41 -0700
From: Amir Nazary <anazary@staff.portal.ca>
Organization: Internet Portal Services
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To: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
Subject: Re: onboard Adaptec 7890?
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I've already been through this myself.  Seems as if the 7880 is what works, and
the 7890 is what doesn't.  I had to get the older P2L97S which has the 7880 AIC.



Chris Jones wrote:

> I've got a motherboard (ASUS P2B-S) with an onboard Adaptec 7890.
> Unfortunately, it's not successfully attached at boot time.  I've
> tried the kernel from boot.fs in the July snapshot, and it finds the
> device on the scsi bus (vendor 0x9005, product 0x001f), but doesn't
> configure it.
>
> Isn't the 7890 supported under "ahc* at pci?"?  Shouldn't this be
> attached?  Or does the INSTALL kernel not have support for those
> compiled into it?  That would seem pretty odd to me.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> Chris
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------cjones@math.montana.edu
> Chris Jones                                          cjones@honors.montana.edu
>            Mad scientist at large                    cjones@nervana.montana.edu
> "Is this going to be a stand-up programming session, sir, or another bug hunt?"


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