19 Apr
2006
19 Apr
'06
6:31 a.m.
Jeff Walther wrote:
I believe this card is an IBM ServeRAID.
Peace... Sridhar
Date: Fri, 07
Apr 2006 08:54:02 -0700
From: Don Y <dgy at DakotaCom.Net>
Card is full length. PCI. Appears to be made by
IBM
(FRU 76H6875). Has three AIC-7880's on it connected to
External connector appears to be LVD or SE
(bummer, I
was hoping to find a HVD in this box of goodies...)
I'll assume it's a RAID controller.
I don't know anything about any RAID features, but the AIC-7880 supports
Ultra-Wide SCSI, but not LVD. So assuming the firmware also supports
it, you should have UW and earlier support on that card.
The 7880 is the chip used on the Adaptec 2940UW and the 3940UW, but the
3940UW is just a DEC PCI-PCI bridge with two 7880 chips hanging off of
it--basically two 2940UWs on the same card with a PPB to make it fit in
one PCI slot.
Some of the very late model Adaptec 2940UWs used a later chip (such as
the Dual and the Pro models) but the vast bulk of the 2940UWs used the
7880.