[KLUG Members] Re: Install issues -- aic7xxx support has always been a bitch ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 16:26, Adam Williams wrote:
> I've used similair hardware to this (includeing the AIC7xxx)
> without incident.

You're usually safe with retail Adaptec products.  But OEM Adaptec
products on mainboards or bundled with PCs are usually SOL because of
little firmware/BIOS changes.  This is the market that Adaptec has bred
-- lots of variant OEM products that are NOT compatible with their
retail versions.

I've got some older FastSCSI Adaptec cards that work great with
aic7xxx.  But I've got a number of OEM mainboards and Adaptec products
that don't -- and even a retail 2940UW that doesn't work with _any_
aic7xxx I've thrown at it.  All-in-all there's a _lot_ of Adaptec
hardware on my shelf (probably close to $1K) that does NOT work with
Linux, or even some newer Windows versions for that matter.

-- Bryan

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