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Re: Will a Diamond Fireport40 work with linux?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim W. Bennett)
Thu Oct 30 11:13:03 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:09:09 -0600
From: bennejw@anubis.network.com (Jim W. Bennett)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, mdorman@viper.law.miami.edu
> From owner-linux-scsi-outgoing@vger.rutgers.edu Thu Oct 30 07:09:35 1997
> To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: Will a Diamond Fireport40 work with linux?
> From: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@viper.law.miami.edu>
> Date: 30 Oct 1997 08:09:16 -0500
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> jhm@umr.edu (Justin Miller) writes:
> > Upon looking at the information at
> > ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/people/gerard-roudier/
> > i've decided to go ahead and try the fireport contorller, the drivers
> > here apparently support the ncr875. If all else fails I can always send
> > it back and exchange it for a (much) more expensive adaptec controller.
> > I appreciate the replies they really helped out a lot, thanks.
>
> ASUS has a controller that's also 875 based, and has been verified to
> work with linux.
>
> Heck, you can also find it (slightly) cheaper than the FP40. Check
> out www.netbuyer.com.
>
> Mike.
>
Promise's SCSIULTRA SCSI controller uses the same NCR 53c875 chipset and works
flawlessly with Linux kernel 2.0.30.
Jim
