Re: [PATCH] Adaptec AHA-2930CU support

Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:18:18 -0500

Jonathan Woithe wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> The following trivial patch (against aic7xxx.c c version 5.1.17) adds
> support for the Adaptec AHA-2930CU UltraSCSI card to the kernel. According
> to Adaptec this card uses the AIC-7859BT. Since Linux has no specific
> support for the 7859BT (or the 7855 for that matter) Linux treats the 2930CU
> as a 7850 which in practice works quite well. According to Adaptec's web
> site (and my experience) the 2930CU is different to the other 293X cards and
> drivers for one don't work with the other (they use different AICs for a
> start).
>
> This patch simply adds te 2930CU's PCI id to pci.h and adds relevant lines
> to aic7xxx.c to allow detection of this device.

The 2930CU support has been in the official driver for several releases now.
This patch isn't needed if you have 5.1.18 or later version of the driver.

-- 
  Doug Ledford   <dledford@redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.


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