Re: Hardware Q

[Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Nils-Erik Svangård <nisse@medio.mh.se> writes:

> I'm about to buy a alpha I'm looking at the 164UX2 motherboard with a 533
> MHz processor.
> My question is the onboard SCSI-controller (SymbiosLogic 53C875
> Ultra-WideSCSI) and the onboard Ethernet-card (Digital 21143) are they
> supported by Linux. I cant find any info on that.

I have just such a maschine with an ATI Xpert@Work.  Scsi, ethernet
and X run fine. The NCR53C875 seems to be flaky for me (2.1.128 works
only asynchron and 2.1.129 doesn't work at all), but thats probably
caused by the unstable kernel or a termination problem. Other people
have reported that it works fine with different kernels (see other
mail). In case you experience scsi errors when stressing the scsi bus, 
playing around witht the scsi paramters will be the right thing.

May the Source be with you.
			Goswin