Re: AS255: UW SCSI, sound, video, kernel
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:06:30AM -0500, Alex Winbow wrote:
>
> At the risk of running off-topic, I'd point out that the Tekram
> 390U2B has only 68pin connectors (internal and external), for Ultra2 LVD @
> 80mb/s. (They can also take ultrawide/fastwide, but then the -whole- bus
> goes out of LVD mode back to ultrawide @ 40mb/s)
>
> In particular, the U2B does NOT have any 50-pin connectors. For
> your cdroms, zip drives, burners, etc. The U2W has all three internal
> connectors, but then the price gets much closer to the Adaptec 2940U2W.
The Alphastation 255 has an integrated 83c810a fast-scsi controller,
so I already have 50 pin connectors, both internal and external. I
will probably have to boot from a hard disk connected to it.
> To bring this back to the Alpha, doesn't x86 kernel support for a
> scsi driver imply Alpha (and SPARC and MIPS and ...) support?
No, it doesn't. However, quoting from drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx:
>This driver has been tested OK with linux/i386, Linux/Alpha and Linux/PPC.
However, the reverse is usually true: if a driver doesn't exist/work
for x86, it quite probably doesn't for other architectures too.
Ciao, William
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