AIC(4)

💅 AIC(4) — the Adaptec AIC-6260 & AIC-6360 SCSI driver, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual and it's literally all about aic, the driver that makes your old-school Adaptec SCSI chips talk to your machine. no cap, it's a whole vibe ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

aic — the Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 SCSI driver 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

aic0 at isa? port 0x340 irq 12
aic* at isapnp?
aic* at pcmcia? function ?
scsibus* at aic?

like, that's the whole config incantation. copy it exactly, bestie, don't freestyle 🙈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

The aic driver provides support for the Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 SCSI controller chips. that's the tea ☕

⚠️ okay so important heads-up: the PCMCIA SCSI host adapters and many ISA cards do not include boot ROMs, and therefore they cannot be used to connect the boot device. so like... they're not gonna boot for you, no matter how cute they look 😭 plan accordingly!

🔥 HARDWARE 🔥

cards supported by the aic driver include, and honestly? iconic lineup 👑

• Adaptec 1502 ISA SCSI host adaptor
• Adaptec 152x ISA SCSI host adaptor
• Adaptec AHA-1520B ISAPNP SCSI host adaptor
• Adaptec APA-1460 PCMCIA SCSI host adaptor
• Creative Labs SoundBlaster ISA SCSI host adaptor, and compatibles

that's the full roster, fr fr — i didn't skip a single one 💖

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• cd(4)
• ch(4)
• intro(4)
• scsi(4)
• sd(4)
• st(4)

go read those too, they're giving required reading for the SCSI friend group 🌈

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💅

this one's courtesy of Debian, dated November 10, 1997 — yeah, she's vintage, she's a legacy icon, we stan 👑