Adaptec Linux drivers (aic7xxx)

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Tip provided by Gary L.Hennigan
| Does anyone know if there is a specific site for distribution of the newest
| Adaptec Linux drivers? Similar to the development pages that Donald Becker
| has for the tulip and epic network drivers.

There's the mailing list. Send email to majordomo@freebsd.org with the
following line in the message body:

subscribe aic7xxx <your email address>

It's pretty low volume so it won't fill your mailbox or anything.

| I have looked and looked and haven't been able to find a source other than
| the latest kernel source, and those aren't any newer than the one we are
| using (June 98)

There are patches available for the 2.0.35 kernel source, as well as
the 2.1.123 development kernel source. The URL is

ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/5.1.0-pre-patches

Despite what it says, the latest is pre15, not pre14. Doug Ledford,
the developer, just popped that one on the server before he left for a
short time.

It's fairly stable, but some people are still having trouble with
their U2W controllers, and it's IDing one of my wide drives as a
narrow drive. Other than that I've been using the patches Doug puts up
for about a month and haven't had any other problems.

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