Help ID oddball SCSI controller

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jeff Walther wrote:
>> 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.

I believe this card is an IBM ServeRAID.

Peace...  Sridhar