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- From: wolfi@wiesel (Wolfram Stering)
- Subject: Re: Linux on EISA?
- Message-ID: <BxtDxL.Fq@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
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- Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:05:45 GMT
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- In comp.os.linux article <1992Nov12.114728.11235@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> you
- wrote:
- > Is there a version of Linux which runs on EISA - bus machines?
- > Is anybody working on it?
- > How hard would it be do do?
- >
- > If I get replies, I'll post a summary.
- > Tnx.
- > --
- > Thomas Koenig, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ui0t@dkauni2.bitnet
- > The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
- logarithmic
- > diagram.
-
-
-
- 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.
-
- As for the Linux kernel, it seems to work.
-
- The only strange thing 'till now is gcc 2.2.2d. Trying to run makefiles
- causes the compiler to stop after some files with an "internal compiler
- error, got signal 11" (SIGSEGV) or similar message. I don't know if it's a
- problem related to EISA-machines.
-
- Please all out there using EISA-machines and/or SCSI-drives (especially
- AHA1740), provide us your experiences! I'll post mine!
-
- !wolfi.
-