[CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

Mon Nov 16 16:06:36 UTC 2009
Frank Thommen <frank.thommen at embl-heidelberg.de>

>> for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with 
>> external 50pin connector.  I thought about getting an "Adaptec SCSI Card 
>> 2930LP".  However I was not able to find any usable information about 
>> wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not.  Does anyone 
>> have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine?
> 
> ALL Adaptec SCSI Cards (except for a few bleeding edge 64-bit PCI cards)
> are supported, out-of-the-box using stock kernels on all versions of
> CentOS (3.x, 4.x, and 5.x):

Great & thanks


> sauron.deepsoft.com% strings /lib/modules/2.6.9-89.0.16.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko |grep 2930
> [...]

I'll use this string search next time I'm looking for device support.  I 
didn't know I could do that.

Greetings from my host (balrog) to your's :-)


frank