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Re: SUMMARY: Tekram Linux support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Thu Jul 22 14:24:33 1999
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 22 Jul 1999 20:00:17 +0200
Matthias Andree <mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE> wrote:
> drives with that. So, what are your objections to the DC-390 and what
> are your recommendations in favor of the SYM53C810A based upon?
Infact, my summary has been done layer by layer, and until recently,
I didn't know about the SuSE driver. Moreover, I have used
Tekram DC-390F (875 based)
Tekram U2W (895 based)
NCR810 based boards
but not the 390.
> All Tekram boards are Tekram-designed AFAIK, just that these 395 series
> happen to use a Tekram ASIC instead of Symbios (now LSI) or AMD chips.
Yes, well, if you look at the board, you don't see much except the
Symbios Logic chip. Thus my comment.
> Tekram has promised with their very first product announcement that
> Linux drivers had been in development, so "no Linux support" is a wrong
> claim.
This is from people in comp.periph.scsi saying either no driver,
bad driver, or late driver.
Also the tcsim (?) driver was not updated for a long time before
SuSE took over (for the 390). The drivers for the 875 were done by
Gerard Roudier from a BSD port, no support for Tekram on this (but,
according to the author, very good support from Symbios Logic. I
also agree since I recently requested the manuals and I got all
of them in less than 2 weeks, with source code disquette, for free,
and without NDA).
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