Is the card failing on boot? If not, have you tried using it? The AHA
specifies the driver type as far as I know and not the actual card. I also
have a 2940U and it was picked up on install and boot. It works fine. I
just can't tell where to check the driver settings from.
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> When I installed 7.2 on my computer, it recognized the SCSI card as an
> Adaptec AIC-7881U. When the computer boots, it sees and Adaptec
> 2940U and
> since there is no boot device the bios does not turn on. On openning the
> computer, I am fairly certain that I have only one SCSI card and
> it is the
> 2940U. Is there a way without reinstalling 7.2, to tell Linux
> that the card
> is a 2940U instead of a AIC-7881U. I want to run an HP 5P
> scanner off the
> SCSI card. At present SANE or xscanimage cannot find the scanner
> even though
> it is plug into the 2940 card. The scanner worked perfectly with an old
> computer and Windows 95.
>
> If I can get Linux to recognize the correct SCSI card, then I will ask my
> next question about simple directions to get SANE working with an HP 5P
> scanner.
>
> William Lott
>
>
