[3358] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Tekram 390F
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Wed Feb 18 03:53:36 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:57:06 +0100 (CET)
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: Dave Hall <raku@stny.lrun.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <34EA4A67.63F7A738@stny.lrun.com>
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dave Hall wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Does anybody have anything to say about the Tekram 950F? I'm trying to
> figure out which Ultra Wide card is overall good with Linux and is
> currently working good with the latest 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. Other
> alternatives (more expensive) are the Promise ultra wide card and the
> Adaptec 2940UW.
The Tekram DC390F is based on the NCR53C875 chip. It works perfectly with
the ncr53c8xx driver included in the linux kernel.
(Actually, it needs driver revisions higher than 2.3, but the latest
kernels do provide 2.4a (2.0.33) resp. 2.5f (2.1.80), so this is a
non-issue. Formerly there was another driver available as patch. See on
the Tekram site or on student.physik.uni-dortmund.de if you want to try
out this one.)
Performance is fine, as you could expect from a ncr53c875 based adapter.
Adapter BIOS offers you a bunch of options such a boot from CD. Finally
there are drivers for a lot of OSes incl. NT, OS/2, 95, DOS, SCO, Netware,
so I don't see any reason not to decide in favour of DC390F.
Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
PGP key on http://student.physik.uni-dortmund.de/homepages/garloff
