[3312] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Probs with atp870
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juergen Gaertner)
Fri Feb 13 03:25:47 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:52:47 +0100
From: Juergen Gaertner <gaertner@mbox.si.uni-hannover.de>
To: J.Winkler@uni-bonn.de
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, zych@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
Johannes Winkler schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
> having bought that card myself, it seems to be OK if you don't happen
> to run Linux ...
....
> www.acard.com.
> I haven't been successful locating a driver for Linux so far, so
> please keep me informed if you are more lucky.
I have seen a picture of that card in the german c't journal. It looks exactly
like the Western Digital PCI-SCSI cards (WD7193,WD7197,WD7296). Also the
description on the URL mentioned above shows similarities. If it turns out that
it is the same chip, it formaly was an WD33C296.
WD has sold all the know-how to Adaptec and doesn't support it anymore. There is
poor docu.
There are attempts to write a driver for WD33C296. The homepage is at
http://home.earthlink.net/~shanec/719x.html
I patched the original release to get it to work. If you are interested look at
http://schering.si2.uni-hannover/stuff/gaertner/WD719X. If the hardware is
compatible, you may try to patch the PCI-Stuff to "detect" your card too, and
try to load the microcode. The microcode is the critical point. If it doesn't
run, no chance!
>
> Johannes
>
....
> > memory). Checking dejanews and yahoo wasn't a sucess except that I'm not
> > the only idiot getting this controller.
> >
> > Ciao and TIA
> > Gregor
> > --
> > Gregor Zych \|/ ___ \|/ Nur die Harten
> > @~./'O o`\.~@ kommen in den
> > zych@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /__( \___/ )__\ Garten
> > `\__`U_/'
> > ^^^
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