Re: srm and scsi controllers.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:19:42PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jay Estabrook wrote:
>
> > Depends not only on the manufacturer (BusLogic is NOT supported), but also
> > the specific chipset - NCR/Symbios 810/875/895 are fine, 860 was not.
> >
> > SRM supports, in general, only the options which we (DEC/COMPAQ) have
> > sold to run under OSF1/DU/Tru64 or VMS. That some cards that we've not
> > sold will work, ie some of the SCSI NCR810/875/895 or QLogic or
> > (recently) Adaptec ones, or some of the third party TULIP NICs, is
> > luck... ;-}
> >
> > But you're out of luck with BusLogic under SRM if you boot from it; if
> > you can boot another way (from a supported SCSI or IDE disk or over
> > the net) then you can stick with SRM, otherwise go back to AlphaBIOS
> > and MILO...
>
> Thanks for clearing that up :-) I was wondering about if BusLogic was
> supported myself (wow, am I glad I didn't buy that other card I was
> looking at when I bought the 390F). Is there any way that we can get a
> list of SRM-supported stuff or should we just rely on the HCL's on
> Compaq's site?
I think the HCLs are the definitive (externally accessible :-) source.
We've tended to stick with controller families (so that updating a
driver was all that was needed) rather than introducing completely new
ones. Recent additions have been Adaptec (but not all of them), Intel
EEPro100 NIC, NCR/Symbios 896, and a couple of recent Mylex RAID
controllers. Those are only the ones I know of, ie there may be
others.
--Jay++
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Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project
Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20 (508) 467-2080
200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com
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