I have several old Intel servers with a dual-channel SCSI controller (Adaptec AIC-7770). They have been running for six years without a hitch. Although they have slow processors, P3-75's, they serve as our archive perfectly. Each has 8 36 GB SCSI drives. They have been running RedHat Linux 7.2. The Kernel is 2.4.7-10. I needed to upgrade to a newer release for security and to get the most recent SAMBA features. I tried to upgrade to RH9, no joy, the adapter is not recognized. Now as part of another project I tried the Fedora distribution. No joy here either. I rebuilt the kernel (.2149) turning on the EISA/VL probes for the AIC-7770 and it still ignores the controller. The SCSI is an embedded Adaptec AIC-7770 EISA (Adaptec AHA274x). During the boot process that worked, the controller was recognized and the init apparently downloaded some sequencer code. A search of the RedHat site turned up my past attempts and a Google search turned up some references, however I was unable to get any usable indication of where to turn. I would really appreciate a bit of help getting this system up to date. Thanks in advance for any counsel you may offer.
