[3701] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Quick Compaq Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Sun Nov 10 05:33:46 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 11:31:28 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <199611100622.AAA02983@eagle.ais.net> from "Tim Hockin" at Nov 10, 96 00:22:18 am
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> > A client of mine will be going to LiNUX in the near future. The server
> > is a Compaq Prosigna VS, I am assuming I will have to dump the main
> > board w/ with Netflex Ethernet card on it... The SCSI controller is an
> > NCR710... I belive that sucker will go too. But, I would like to keep
> > the 4mm DAT Python Archive tape, the DEC 1.2GIG and the Compaq SCSI
> > CDROM... They also have an APC SmartUps 600... Any comments on this
> > hardware assuming I put a new network card in, and a new scsi
> > controller... Thanks.
>
> a client of mine has a proliant and a prosigna. The netflex card does
> NOT work, but the NCR SCSI works, and works VERY well so far.
In the Prosignia 500 the NetFlex card is a PCnet (AMD) chip and works
very well too with the appropriate driver (even in 1.2.13). But I never
tried the VS model.
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