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- From: drew@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Linux on EISA?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.191656.5027@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <BxtDxL.Fq@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:16:56 GMT
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- In article <BxtDxL.Fq@cosy.sbg.ac.at> wolfi@wiesel (Wolfram Stering) writes:
- >In comp.os.linux article <1992Nov12.114728.11235@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> you
- >wrote:
- >
- >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.
-
- No, Brad McLean did the 174x support. Based on Tommy Thorn's 154x driver +
- Eric Youngdale's scatter/gather code and assorted bugfixes.
-
- You'll note that the verb is "did", as in past tense.
-
- The 174x boards are supported in native mode in the latest alpha
- SCSI code (it's quite stable, and should make it into Linux .99). You can
- get the code from tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi.
-
- The new SCSI code supports scatter / gather, and doesn't throttle
- the adaptec 174x back to one sector READ / WRITE commands, so you
- should see a significant performance increase with the new code
-
- >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.
-
- I'd guess that you have a corrupt binary someplace.
-
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