[680] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Am I stuck with a "spare" GB!?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Wed Oct 11 13:13:55 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 21:29:21 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: alb0@gte.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510101913.PAA22141@ns.gte.com> (alb0@gte.com)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:20:04 -0500
From: alb0@gte.com (Andrew Betz)
I am trying to get a Seagate ST-410800N 9GB SCSI harddrive hooked
up to an old HP Vectra 486-20. I want to NFS format and export the
Seagate drive. So far, so good. It turns out that the HP Vectra has
a EISA/ISA bus, so I need to find a SCSI controller that is SCSI-II FAST
and ISA. The only ones that show up as Linux supported are
an Adaptec 1542-CP and a Buslogic 747S. The rub is that both of
these cards are apparently maxed out at 8GB. Am I stuck with
a wasted GB!?! Even worse, these cards are both in the $225 range.
This seems overpriced given the cost of PCI boards (am I paranoid,
or are they out to get my money!?!).
You're only stuck with 8GB if you plan to use the BIOS for your disk access.
Any driver that speaks directly to the controller ought to have no problems
accessing the full size of the drive.
Leonard
