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Re: AMD 53c974 SCSI Chip
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Mon May 22 18:49:23 1995
To: atkinson@greatwall.cctt.com
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 May 1995 15:42:23 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 16:06:34 MDT
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@boulder.openware.com>
In message <9505221942.AA48575@greatwall.cctt.com>, atkinson@greatwall.cctt.com
writes:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm a Linux newbie (having just installed it late last night), and I am having
>problems with Linux recognizing my NEC 4xi cd-rom.
>
>I just recently purchased a ZEOS 100Mhz Pentium system w/ their onboard SCSI
>option (the AMD 53C974 PCI SCSI chip). Has anyone had any experience with
>this chip? Is it supported?
There's an alpha driver available -
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/AM53C974-0.3.tar.gz
The tar file includes both patches and a kernel image; see the Linux
SCSI-HOWTO or other documents for how to get that image to work with
your boot/root floppy set.
>My cd-rom is the only SCSI device in my system (IDE hard drive). I think it
>is configured for SCSI ID# 1, with SCSI ID#'s 0, 2-7 available. Would
>reconfiguring my drive for ID #0 work?
No.
