[8099] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: Compaq ProSignia NCR controler
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Tille)
Mon Feb 14 03:59:21 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:51:36 +0100 (CET)
From: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>
To: David Fletcher <DavidFletcher@bri.cit.com.au>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, David Fletcher wrote:
> I have one of these Compaq beasties and attempted to put Linux on it a
> couple of years ago only to find that the NCR 710 was supported but not on
> the Compaq EISA bus which these machines use.
>
> It's worth keeping the EISA bus in mind when using any of onboard devices on
> these servers as not many devices are supported under linux on EISA.
In deed it is an EISA bus and I did not know that this makes a difference
for the SCSI driver. This might definitely be the problem why the
kernel driver does not work.
What information could I support to enable the developers include this
if they want to do it?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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