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by **Thomas Al** » Fri, 09 Feb 1996 04:00:00

Question: Is SCSI-Controller ADAPTEC AIC7850-Fast SCSI-2 Controller
on Board compatible with LINUX 3.11 XFree86 V3.1.2
(German LINUX Distr.) ?

The complete hardware configuration under consideration is the
following:
Mainboard PCI LS-P54TS Triton/SCSI75-200 Mhz;
Socket 7;
5xISA/3xPCI;
4xIDE Pio-Mode4;
SCSI-Controller ADAPTEC AIC7850-Fast SCSI2-Controller on Board;
Producer Lucky Star;
HDD SCSI 1.080GB IBM DPES-31080 10,5ms;
Fast SCSI-2;
VGA PCI Diamond Stealth64 Video 2 MB VRAM S3-968-64Bit-video-proc.;
CD-ROM drive Pioneer DR-U124X SCSI speed: 4,4.

If you could give further advice concerning this hardware, this would be
acknowledged very much. Thanks for help.

by **Alexander F** » Sun, 11 Feb 1996 04:00:00

: The complete hardware configuration under consideration is the
: following:
: Mainboard PCI LS-P54TS Triton/SCSI75-200 Mhz;
: Socket 7;
: 5xISA/3xPCI;
: 4xIDE Pio-Mode4;
: SCSI-Controller ADAPTEC AIC7850-Fast SCSI2-Controller on Board;
: Producer Lucky Star;
: HDD SCSI 1.080GB IBM DPES-31080 10,5ms;
: Fast SCSI-2;
: VGA PCI Diamond Stealth64 Video 2 MB VRAM S3-968-64Bit-video-proc.;
: CD-ROM drive Pioneer DR-U124X SCSI speed: 4,4.

I have a very similar configuration:
Board: P54TS PCI-Mainboard with SCSI AHA2940 onboard (Chipset Aic7850 !)
Memory: 2 x 16 MB PS2-Modules
Graphic-Card: V7 Spea Mirage P64, 2MB
Cache: 256 k Pipelined Burst Cache
CPU: P120
Periphery: 1GB SCSI-2-HD
320 MB SCSI-1-HD
Double-Speed-SCSI-CDROM
1.44 MB FD
and ist does not work at all.

I don't know why, but I think that Linux doen't support the Aic7850 Cipset.

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******** Don't buy a Aic7850 ********
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by **Mark Lyn** » Wed, 14 Feb 1996 04:00:00

>: The complete hardware configuration under consideration is the
>: following:
>: Mainboard PCI LS-P54TS Triton/SCSI75-200 Mhz;
>: Socket 7;
>: 5xISA/3xPCI;
>: 4xIDE Pio-Mode4;
>: SCSI-Controller ADAPTEC AIC7850-Fast SCSI2-Controller on Board;
>: Producer Lucky Star;
>: HDD SCSI 1.080GB IBM DPES-31080 10,5ms;
>: Fast SCSI-2;
>: VGA PCI Diamond Stealth64 Video 2 MB VRAM S3-968-64Bit-video-proc.;
>: CD-ROM drive Pioneer DR-U124X SCSI speed: 4,4.

>I have a very similar configuration:
> Board: P54TS PCI-Mainboard with SCSI AHA2940 onboard (Chipset Aic7850 !)
> Memory: 2 x 16 MB PS2-Modules
> Graphic-Card: V7 Spea Mirage P64, 2MB
> Cache: 256 k Pipelined Burst Cache
> CPU: P120
> Periphery: 1GB SCSI-2-HD
> 320 MB SCSI-1-HD
> Double-Speed-SCSI-CDROM
> 1.44 MB FD
>and ist does not work at all.

>I don't know why, but I think that Linux doen't support the Aic7850 Cipset.

>--

> ****************************************
> ******** Don't buy a Aic7850 ********
> ****************************************

> ****************************************

Check out ftp://ftp.ims.com/pub/Linux/aic7xxx for the latest support
for your 2940. I have an Adaptec 3940 (basically 2 2940's on one
card) which wasn't recognizable until I upgraded to 1.3.52.
Now it works fine.

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Mark Lynn