[SCore-users] Problem with aic79xx driver

[kameyama at pccluster.org]

In article <3E2EB3CC.3BD8D764 at chem.uoa.gr> Aristotle Papakondylis <papakondylis at chem.uoa.gr> wrotes:
> I tried to install SCORE 5.2.0 kernel by RPM on my i686 computer
> but I was told that aic79xx module was not found. It is
> obvious that this scsi driver is not supported by the kernel.
> Is it possible to insert the driver into SCORE kernel?

aic9xxx driver is not found in SCore kernel.
Also Its driver is not fond in official 2.4.x kernel.
But its driver include in 2.5.x kernel from 2.5.54.

You can get aic79xx kernel driver source from Adaptec web page:
    http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2fOperating+System%2fLinux&filekey=aic79xx-1.1.0-source.tar.gz

The kernel source RPM for SCore is:
1. If you have CDROM image and it mounted /mnt/cdrom, you can find
       /mnt/cdrom/score.rpm/kernel-source-score-2.4.18-3SCORE.i386.rpm
2. If you don't have CDROM image, please download from:
       http://www.pccluster.org/score/dist/pub/score-5.2.0/rpm.redhat7.2.i386/kernel-source-score-2.4.18-3SCORE.i386.rpm

The kernel source installed to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18score by the RPM.
And please apply following patch:
    http://www.pccluster.org/score/dist/pub/score-5.2.0/rpm.redhat7.3.i386/kernel-source-score.efi.patch

                       from Kameyama Toyohisa