Adaptec AIC-7902 hardware detection

[Gebhardt Thomas <gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>]

Hi,

some months ago I sent a "patch" to this list, that enabled the
hardware detection of the Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 SCSI adapter.
Looking at knoppix 3.8.1 I found that it had not gone into the
recent release.

So where is the right place to drop that kind of information?

Thanks, Thomas

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To: debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org
Subject: hwdata for Adaptec AIC-7902 U320
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:41:14 +0100

Hi,

Knoppix 3.7 doesn't autodetect the Adaptec AIC-7902 U320
SCSI Adapter. I added

0x9005  0x801f  "aic79xx"       "Adaptec|7902"

to /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable; it seems to work now.

root@0[~]# lspci -n
...
0000:04:07.0 0100: 9005:801f (rev 03)
0000:04:07.1 0100: 9005:801f (rev 03)

root@0[~]# lspci -v
...
0000:04:07.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 341a
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 50
        I/O ports at 3800 [size=256]
        Memory at fe9e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
        I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 
Enable-
        Capabilities: [94] PCI-X non-bridge device.

0000:04:07.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 341a
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 49
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
        Memory at fe9f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
        I/O ports at 3400 [size=256]
        Expansion ROM at fe900000 [disabled] [size=512K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 
Enable-
        Capabilities: [94] PCI-X non-bridge device.

Just curious: why are so many identical lines 
0x9005  0x0080  "aic7xxx"       "Adaptec|7892A"
0x9005  0x0080  "aic7xxx"       "Adaptec|7892A"
...
0x9005  0x0080  "aic7xxx"       "Adaptec|7892A"
0x9005  0x0080  "aic7xxx"       "Adaptec|7892A"

in /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable ?

Cheers, Thomas