WRONG INFO IN PREVIOUS POST!!!
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I will try to put this in all the threads that were polluted by my
wrong info!
2940 RECENT URL's ???
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DO NOT RELY ON ANY OF FOLLOWING URL'S for looking for 2940 stuff :
/pub/systems/linux/aha274x/prerelease/
not up to date for a year it appears
in the past I have found my 2940 boot/root-disks there
OFFICIAL NOW (dixit Dean W. Gehnert)
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ftp://ftp.ims.com/pub/Linux/aic7xxx
Not checked again until some months ago :
AHA2940 is supported from kernel 1.3.5(or4) on, you get it in :
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ftp halcyon : lnx updates & doc
<URL:ftp://ftp.linux.locus.halcyon.com/linux/kernel/v1.3>
Sorry for this inconvenience!
CU
bart
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>> I need some help in getting this card to work with 1.2 kernel. I cannot use
>> 1.3 kernels due to massive page faults.
>> Are there any patches or tricks to getting this to work. The card is only
>> going to be used for external devices. (tape drive).
>> Right now I have ah-274x compiled in but am looking for patches for 1.2 in
>> order to get this to work.
>I have no (particular) problems with my 2940 and Linux. I am using the
>Slackware distribution that came with the August version of the Linux
>Developer's Resource from InfoMagic. That included an alternate kernel
>image called "ahacdrom" that supports the 2940 and the Phillips LMS-206
>CDROM reader. It is 1.2.11 as built. There is also a diverging set of
>kernel source called (I think) "aic7xxx" that supports the 2940. But it
>is 1.1.31 or something like that. Still, the driver IS there if you know
>how to meld it into a later distribution to build the kernel. I do not
>know how, myself.
>Still, I find the Linux 2940 driver nowhere near as stable as the Adaptec
>driver in OS/2. I have hung the system numerous times with Linux, but
>VERY rarely in OS/2 (only my scanner does that there).
>Harvey
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