Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian
First of all, I am stunned to find a site like
http://lhd.datapower.com; so, I thank you very much! :-)
Now, I also have the /usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi
directory on my system, because I recently was diligently
re-compiling my kernel for the first time (it worked!
Hooray! :-)
Anyway, there are a lot of cards that are compatible; and I
was wondering, if anyone had some ideas on where to start:
are Adaptec cards a good way to go? It is fairly easy to
look up cards on eBay with the keywords "scsi adaptec";
this way, I am not overwhelmed with selections. I will do
a lot of reading to find out which cards are better than
others, etc.; but any ideas would be appreciated.
I am looking for useful, and CHEAP--I am on a fixed income,
and feeling very poor these days ;-) The Hewlett-Packard
website claims that the scanner I have needs a $150 dollar
card; in fact they generously point out the exact card they
want me to buy...the card that came with the scanner, the
Hewlett-Packard card, is useless, they admit, but they
won't do anything about it. So basically it is a useless
scanner, the way it is shipped. I think the card would
work with Windows 3.1, but the scanner was purchased when I
was using Windows 95 (and it was supposed to be
compatible),but gave nothing but trouble. Now, I use
Linux, but of course there's no way to support the stupid
useless card (which was a triangular board with a small
chip on it).
Anyway, I need a scsi card; the scanner is still in superb
condition (but of course, it has never been used...)
So if anyone has a scsi card, I would appreciate if you
would tell me about it, and how it works with Linux.
thanks!
--Mark Seven Smith
pampaluz@home.com
On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:49 am, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Saturday 08 December 2001 12:34 pm, Mark Seven Smith
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> > I'm trying to get a scsi card (for an old HP ScanJet 4p
> > scanner), though eBay; and in trying to determine if a
> > card advertised will work with Linux, I went to the
> > Debian homepage, and was told that Debian has no
> > hardware requirements beyond those that come with
> > Linux. Then there was a link to check the hardware
> > compatibility HOWTO. But the HOWTO doesn't list scsi
> > cards! In fact, I couldn't find a list of any scsi
> > card compatibilities, except in doing a search from
> > Google, I came across the hardware compatibility lists
> > for Red Hat Linux--they list all the hardware that they
> > *CERTIFY* to run with Red Hat Linux, and what version
> > of RHL each card or whatever works with, which isn't
> > much helpful for Debian stuff (unless I could get a
> > particular scsi driver from a Red Hat site, if that is
> > what they did to make that card "certifiable").
> >
> > Does anyone know of a place that I can check for the
> > compatibility of a particular scsi card, especially for
> > Debian?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > --Mark Seven Smith
> > pampaluz@home.com
>
> Generaly speaking driver availability is a function of
> the kernel source and not distribution specific. This can
> change somewhat as some distros patch their kernel
> sources but scsi is pretty standard stuff.
>
> All drivers are contained in the kernel source, so
> reading through tthe source, /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi,
> would show what cards are supported. Of course this
> requires access to the source and a knowledge of what
> drivers your card uses, aolso the names are somewhat
> cryptic.
>
> The Linux hcl may be easier :)
>
> - --
> Greg Madden
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