Topic: Adding a Adaptec 2940 to a existing system

[David Crouch]

Just needing some direction of where to head for this.  Adding a 2940 to a currently running 5.1.2 system.  System was loaded and put into production without the scsi card.  Now needing more drive space, trying to add the card without a rebuild sinc ei know that the install will pick it up.  I'm fairly sure that I'll need to rebuild the kernel to do it. But,  have not a clue where to begin this little project at.

Would it be easier to replace the kernel with a already 2940 enabled kernel?  If so how can I do that?

I've searched the forums and found nothing concerning anything of this nature.  I'm not a newbie but I can't say that I'm a expert at linux either,  but a good "Look at this" would do wonders.

thanx

Dave

[Aaron]

I had the exact situation as you, a 2940 to provision a SCSI tape drive.

It did not recognize the card after I installed it (I beleive I read in the manual or on the forum here it must be present during the install to be autodetected).

I just did an "upgrade" from 512 to 512 and it picked it up automatically.

Aaron

[David Crouch]

thx that worked out fine

Dave