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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: Linux on EISA?
- Message-ID: <BxvtAK.D9D@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <BxtDxL.Fq@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:32:43 GMT
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- In article <BxtDxL.Fq@cosy.sbg.ac.at> wolfi@wiesel (Wolfram Stering) writes:
- >I am running Linux (0.98.pl3) on an EISA-bus machine with an Adaptec
- >AHA1740 - SCSI-Controller and a Seagate ST1400 hd.
- >
- >It works, but I had to configure the AHA1740 to use standard mode, using
- >IRQ 11, DMA-channel 5 and port 330H. Linux detects it as an AHA1542 and
- >uses slow mode (see FAQ.scsi in nic.funet.fi, in "docs" I think). I hope,
- >Drew is working on AHA1740 Enhanced mode support.
-
- The 1740 enhanced mode driver is included in the scsi drivers that are
- now being alpha tested. If you want to try it out, join the scsi channel,
- and then ask me to tell you where the source code is. I would prefer that
- people using the alpha code be on the SCSI channel, because I tend to make
- announcements there, rather than on c.o.l.
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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