[3877] in RedHat Linux List
Re: SCSI support in 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Mon Nov 11 12:49:14 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:34:08 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <9611111635.AA28894@grendel.objinc.com> from "Chip Atkinson" at Nov 11, 96 09:35:20 am
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> Recently I bought and installed a Buslogic 948. I downloaded the kernel
> patch code and the Buslogic SCSI driver code as well. I ran patch and attempted
> to re-compile the kernel (following the howto document). I was unable to
> compile due to errors. This is the 3.0.3 version of Red Hat.
Worked fine for me (on 1.2.13), but I guess the problems might come from
the ELF patches included in the Red Hat 1.2.13 source tree.
> Does the 4.0 kernel support the Buslogic 948 "out of the box", or do I need
> to get the Buslogic driver and build it into the kernel?
The new BusLogic is a standard part of Linux 2.0.x, so it works (at
least, should work) out of the box.
> I'm going to be connecting a SCSI disk and HP/Colorado T4000 tape drive to
> the card. I figure the disk will be supported, but is the tape drive going
> to be automagically recognized and accessible, or do I need to get some
> other special driver for the tape?
Be sure to enable generic SCSI tape support in the kernel.
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