Re: asking for info on 21164-200 Alpha

Donnie Barnes (djb@redhat.com)
Fri, 31 May 1996 21:24:33 -0400


>> SCSI : DEC KZPAA-AA PCI SCSI card
>> Adaptec AHA-2940
>
>The Adaptec AH-2940 has not, to my knowledge, been ported to the Alpha.
>I believe it (DEC KZPAA-AA) to be a standard implementation of the 2940.
>So, it won't appear in any of the RH 2.1 *or* 3.0.3 AXP pre-built kernels.
>
>Currently, the most stable and common SCSI driver for Alpha is the NCR810.

Just so everyone knows, apparently Leonard Zubkoff is getting an XL
soon so that he can get the Buslogic driver up to snuff on the Alpha.
I don't even know that it's been tried yet, but Leonard does believe
that there are probably some Intel-isms in the code that he didn't
know *were* Intel-isms that he'll need to clean up.

So, I do expect the ENTIRE Buslogic line of SCSI cards (ISA and PCI
at any rate, I doubt EISA, but I suppose it's possible) to be supported
on the Alpha. That's good, since the Buslogic is the best supported
card under Linux/Intel (and the fastest, I believe).

--Donnie

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Donnie Barnes
Software Engineer
Red Hat Software, Inc.
djb@redhat.com