From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Always IN-2000, never seen a reply Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 06:53:53 GMT
In article <1993Jun26.171212.317@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:
>I HAVE read the FAQ. I have checked the docs in the linux sites.
>
>But I have not seen anyone ever reply to questions on whether
>anyone is trying to get linux to be able to run on an IN-2000
>SCSI card. The IN2000 comes with Novell and SCO Unix drivers
>so its not impossible. In fact I wonder if there is some way
>to get Linux to use those drivers.
There is an Always driver in Beta test, here's a forward of Eric's
news posting regarding the driver :
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Always IN2000 SCSI card - What's up with the driver?
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In article <C6ntMI.Mu1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> cas@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (charles s
innett) writes:
>Just wondering how development of the Linux driver for the Always
>card was going. I am the proud owner of one of these cards (actually
>it's a damn good card if you ask me), and I really want to run
>Linux. Please respond by posting so others waiting can read
>the thread.
There is a driver being alpha tested now. If anyone is willing to
alpha-test contact me via email, and I will pass your address along to the
author. Keep in mind that this is an alpha test, and there are bugs in the
code.
-Eric
>So could someone please tell me to do one of the following
>
>1) give up on linux
No.
>2) buy a used ST02 and use that for linux
Performance wise, you're better off with IDE or the Always.
>3) forget SCSI and buy an IDE
Personally, I'd get in touch with the author through eric and see
how stable ALPHA is..
Speaking from personal experience from when I did the SCSI disk/
Seagate drivers : It's pretty easy to get a driver stable enough so
that it only trashes the Linux partitions it's allowed to write to :-)
Therefore, any problems you'd have with the ALPHA driver should at
worst mean having to reinstall Linux on the Linux partition(s).
So, I'd say go for it - you could well find that in your configuration
the driver works fine.
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