Hi,

I'm planning to buy a HP Netserver with an onboard Adaptec AIC 7895H scsi
controller, does anybody know if this controller is supported by
slackware/linux?

thnx,

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znndrp <erased@xs4all.no.spam> wrote:
> I'm planning to buy a HP Netserver with an onboard Adaptec AIC 7895H scsi
> controller, does anybody know if this controller is supported by
> slackware/linux?

As far as I know all Adaptec 78xx SCSI controllers are supported by
the kernel (NOT Slackware, this is a kernel thingy) module aic7xxx.

I'm using an card version of the Adaptec 29160 here (identified by
lspci as:
00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02)
and it works fine, both with disks as well as two kinds of DDS tape
drives (from which the DDS4 needs the "wide" bus).
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Eef Hartman wrote:

> znndrp <erased@xs4all.no.spam> wrote:
>
>>I'm planning to buy a HP Netserver with an onboard Adaptec AIC 7895H scsi
>>controller, does anybody know if this controller is supported by
>>slackware/linux?
>
>
> As far as I know all Adaptec 78xx SCSI controllers are supported by
> the kernel (NOT Slackware, this is a kernel thingy) module aic7xxx.
>
> I'm using an card version of the Adaptec 29160 here (identified by
> lspci as:
> 00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02)
> and it works fine, both with disks as well as two kinds of DDS tape
> drives (from which the DDS4 needs the "wide" bus).

thnx

So if I understand this correctly, this controller is supported by the
kernel by loading the aic7xxx module. I guess this module is loaded by
default, or do I have to tell the kernel to load it?

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On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:38:39 +0200, znndrp wrote:

> Eef Hartman wrote:

> So if I understand this correctly, this controller is supported by the
> kernel by loading the aic7xxx module. I guess this module is loaded by
> default, or do I have to tell the kernel to load it?

you can build it into kernel itself (so no module is needed), load module
with initrd, or load from init scripts.

If you want to boot from SCSI drives, you will have to use one of the
first two choices.

regards,
Igor

Igor Lautar wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:38:39 +0200, znndrp wrote:
>>So if I understand this correctly, this controller is supported by the
>>kernel by loading the aic7xxx module. I guess this module is loaded by
>>default, or do I have to tell the kernel to load it?
>
> you can build it into kernel itself (so no module is needed), load module
> with initrd, or load from init scripts.
>
> If you want to boot from SCSI drives, you will have to use one of the
> first two choices.

So, I can install slackware on the system then boot to it with a boot floppy
and then make sure the module loads with initrd?

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znndrp wrote:
> So if I understand this correctly, this controller is supported by the
> kernel by loading the aic7xxx module. I guess this module is loaded by
> default, or do I have to tell the kernel to load it?

You can either selectively load the module during boot with a directive in
the /etc/rc.modules init script, or allow /etc/rc.hotplug to find your
controller and install the module automagically OR you can build the driver
into a custom Linux kernel.

You may also want to read some of the documentation included with Slackware
10.0 like:

/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO

Best regards,

Brian

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:00:34 +0200, znndrp wrote:

> Igor Lautar wrote:

> So, I can install slackware on the system then boot to it with a boot floppy
> and then make sure the module loads with initrd?

the best thing is to choose scsi.i kernel when installing system, and
everything should work fine, just fine

ivan

Ivan wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:00:34 +0200, znndrp wrote:
>
>
>>Igor Lautar wrote:
>
>
>
>>So, I can install slackware on the system then boot to it with a boot floppy
>>and then make sure the module loads with initrd?
>
>
> the best thing is to choose scsi.i kernel when installing system, and
> everything should work fine, just fine

thnx

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Brian wrote:
> You may also want to read some of the documentation included with Slackware
> 10.0 like:
>
> /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO

I almost forgot there's always a bunch of howto's included

/me 's reading the howto

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znndrp wrote :

> So, I can install slackware on the system then boot to it with a boot
> floppy and then make sure the module loads with initrd?

I pretty sure that you could boot from your SCSI disk if you choose the
adaptec.s kernel at install time. The ".s" in the kernel-name stands for
SCSI.
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