Re: AHA2940UW UltraSCSI option

Magnus Hiie (Mgn@ekspress.ee)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:36:43 +0200


On 12 Jan 97 at 17:07, Sudish Joseph wrote:

> Joachim Achtzehnter writes:
>
> > You need to enable UltraSCSI speeds in the board setup (you get
> > there by pressing certain keys during boot). Then the Linux
> > aic7xxx driver automatically enables UltraSCSI support. You can
> > verify this by looking at the file /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0.
>
> Adding aic7xxx=ultra to lilo's append= options gets me
>
> scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset 15.
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32155N Rev: 0318
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> Better than being synch at 10.0MHz. :) This is with an AHA2940U.
> The option isn't documented, I think, but is present in the options
> struct in aic7xxx.c.
>

I didn't notice the startup message. Yes, it really runs at Ultra
when enabled at BIOS setup. Thanx and sorry.

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