> -----Original Message----- > From: Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 13, 1998 5:26 AM > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: Hardware support > > > On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:51:24 -0400, you wrote: > > >Can someone tell me what version of the aic7xxx (Adaptec SCSI) > driver that > >current Debian distributions are shipping with? I'm considering trying > >Debian on my box, but I need this information to determine if it will > >support my SCSI controller. Thanks... > > > > I'll be interested in any replies to this. None of my Adaptec cards > (2940s, both ultra and wide-ultra) will work with either hamm or > slackware 3.5. There's limited available on this, but as far as I can > tell it's a bug in the .34 kernel which wasn't there in the previous > kernel and as been fixed in the latest (.35?) which isn't in any of > the distros yet. Bummer. The only solutions that I can see are: > > a) Wait for the next set of distributions
<sigh> > b) Buy BusLogic (Mylex) <sigh> > c) Download the .35 kernel and build it into your hamm or whatever > (probably the best solution, but sadly a bit out of my depth at this > early stage) Could do this; problem is the initial installation. Is it possible to get a boot disk with 2.0.35? > If I'm wrong about any of the above, someone please put me right. If > I'm right then I'm suprised more of a stink hasn't been made about it > since there must be staggering numbers of aic7xxx controllers out > there. I can't install Red Hat 5.1 on this box (5.0 won't work either... seems there is a similar problem). I've got SUSE 5.2 here, which will work... But I'd really prefer a libc6 distro. Braden
