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AMD SCSI driver [was Re: Adaptec 2940?]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rik Faith)
Tue Feb 14 14:12:29 1995

To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: faith@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Date: 14 Feb 1995 18:05:45 GMT
CC: faith@cs.unc.edu, tytso@mit.edu

In article <9502141520.AA05802@rt-11.mit.edu>, tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
|> Also, has anyone heard of an AMD SCSI controller on a chip which can be
|> plugged into some motherboards?  Zeos systems appear to use this chip.
|> There's also a version of this chip which contains both a SCSI
|> controller and an ethernet controller.  Has anyone played with this?

A friend of mine was looking for this earlier, but he hasn't tried it yet
(and I don't have an AMD chip, so I don't know anything else about it).  I
think that I forgot to followup on my quest to linux-scsi -- thanks to all
who wrote me the first time.  Here's a copy of the lsm:

> Begin
> Title:          AMD AM53/79C974 PCI SCSI driver
> Version:        0.1
> Entered-date:   10JAN95
> Description:    This is an alpha SCSI driver for the AM53C974 and AM79C974
>                 PCI SCSI chips.  It was tested with a Compaq XL machine
>                 which has the AM79C974 on the the mainboard.
>                 A Linux 1.1.75 kernel for the Compaq XL566 is included.
> Keywords:       SCSI, driver, AM53C974, AM79C974, PCI, Compaq
> Author:         fri@rgsun1.dornier.de
>                 100115.1712@compuserve.com (Dieter Frieauff)
> Maintained-by:  fri@rgsun1.dornier.de (Dieter Frieauff)
> Primary-site:   tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi
>                 265679 AM53C974-0.1.tar.gz
>                 2748   AM53C974-0.1.README
> Alternate-site: 
> Original-site:  
> Platform:       Linux 1.1.75
> Copying-policy: Copyright (C) 1995 Dieter Frieauff
>                 GNU General Public License version
> End

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