[plug] SCSI card question

[Chris Griffin]

I do not know why, but for some reason I thought it was a bootable SCAI 
card but it turned out not to be. I got it from www.compuware.com.au $75.
Had I known all of this I would have got the $110 AdvanceTech? bootable one 
from PLE.
Where do you get the NCR one from and how much?
The info you sent, one of the drivers, SYM53c8XX, would that happen to mean 
it uses the Symbios chip. The TekRam uses the symbios chips.

Regards,
Chris


At 05:33  4/08/1999 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:25PM +0800, Chris Griffin wrote:
> > Has anyone had any experience getting a TekRam dc310 scsi card working
> > under LINUX?
> > I foolishly purchased one and it does not seem to detect at install time
> > (RH 6.0)
>
>Haven't tried that specific one, but the NCR53c810's are wonderful cards -
>dirt cheap, with great performance. You find them all over the place. How
>much was yours, from where? Can you boot off it?
>
>Support's so good that you've got a choice of three drivers. ::-)
>
>As gleaned from the kernel compilation help ;
>NCR53c7,8xx:    Supports the 53c810, but recommends using one of the
>                 newer drivers
>NCR53c8XX:      Should work nicely. Ported from BSD sources.
>SYM53c8XX:      Based on NCR53c8XX. Should work very nicely indeed,
>                 though it's dropped support for some older 53c810
>                 cards.
>
>More info in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx .
>
>Nick.
>
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