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Re: Wide SCSI Adapter success?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Tue Jul 25 03:40:44 1995
To: Tom Tongue <ttongue@aoc.nrao.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:17:16 MDT."
<199507241517.AA06656@jasmine.aoc.nrao.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:21:58 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <199507241517.AA06656@jasmine.aoc.nrao.edu>, ttongue@aoc.nrao.edu wr
ites:
>
>Can anyone reccomend as Wide SCSI PCI adapter that already is known
>to work with the current Slackware distribution of Linux?
Buslogic 956.
>I have an Adaptec 2940-Wide that does not work with the scsinet1 boot disk,
>and since I don't have anything other than WIDE SCSI hhard drives
>on my machine, I can't install linux first then toy with the kernel.
>Suggestions?
1. WIDE and synchronous SCSI are _options_ which aren't used until they're
negotiated for. Ie, you could plug most FAST WIDE SCSI-II drives into
a asynchronous SCSI-I host and have them work; not having working
WIDE support isn't a problem (although performance will suffer if it
is a REALLY fast drive like the parallel head baracuda)
2. The distribution 1.2.x kernel doesn't support the 2940 boards. Take a
look on
ftp://remus.nrl.navy.mil/pub/Linux/patches
for the latest version of the driver.
>
>-Tom
