> From: "Brent L. Bates"
 >      We are trying to use an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card in our system, Pentium4
 > 3.0 GHz, and it doesn't seem to be recognized at all.  We are running
 > Scientific Linux 3.0.5 with the 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.XFSsmp kernel.  I tried
 > downloading a RedHat EL3 driver RPM from Adpatec.  The rpm would not load.
 >  I'm not sure where to go from here.  We have put other Adaptec SCSI cards
 > into the system and they have been recognized and worked with out problems,
 > but this new one isn't.  We wanted the newer card for the faster wide buss.
 >  Any suggestions on what to do?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just did build a sl304 system with a aha29160 a few minutes ago with
no fuss... no extra rpms... hints follow...  you probably just need
"alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" in /etc/modules.conf

steve 
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systems & network manager
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

ginseng(rader): sudo modprobe aic7xxx  # not necessary because...

ginseng(rader): sudo grep aic7xxx /etc/modules.conf
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx

ginseng(rader): sudo lsmod | grep aic7xxx # its driver is loaded...
aic7xxx               160880   5
diskdumplib             4940   0 [aic7xxx]
scsi_mod              106408   2 [aic7xxx sd_mod]

ginseng(rader): sudo grep aic7 /var/log/messages # it exists...
Oct 20 09:34:30 ginseng kernel:         aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
Oct 20 09:42:31 ginseng kernel:         aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

ginseng(rader): grep sda /var/log/messages   # it has a 35 GB disk attached...
Oct 21 09:42:32 ginseng kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Oct 21 09:42:32 ginseng kernel: SCSI device sda: 71687372 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB)
Oct 21 09:42:32 ginseng kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >