[824] in linux-scsi channel archive
Slackware, 53c7,8xx and ncr 875 chips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Sun Oct 20 17:26:24 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:21:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: Linux <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
ncr53c810@colorado.edu
cc: cdickens@ha1.ntr.net
Hi all ncr chip lovers!
Slackware distributions seems to not provide a boot disk with the
BSD ported driver.
Apparently (checked in the source too), Drew's driver does not detect
NCR53C875 chips.
If that's true, people who want to start with a free UNIX system will
have only 1 choice: FreeBSD-2.1.5.
I respect Linux users who prefer Drew's driver, even if I obviously
disagree with them. They just have to find a maintainer for this driver.
Have somebody a pointer to a boot disk which allows to install Slackware
distribution with a NCR53C875 scsi chip?
Thanks in advance.
Here's the problem description:
On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Christopher Dickens wrote:
> At 12:35 AM 10/20/96 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >> I just recently got on this list by recommendation of someone on it.
> >> Forgot who. Anyhow, they mentioned that support for the 53c875 is either
> >> here or forthcoming to FreeBSD? Does anyone have any information as to
> >> what distributions are currently supporting this card, or which will be the
> >> first release to support it? Thanks for all help!!!
>
> Apparently it just plain out doesn't support mine. It doesn't even look
> like it's looking for my board on boot-up. And it zooms right past saying
> "SCSI: 0 hosts found". This is on the NCR boot-up disk for Slackware.
Gerard.
