From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: ADAPTEC 1520/1522: Do Linux Kernel Drivers Exist? Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 00:03:15 GMT
In article <C3GGyM.850@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dlm40629@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel L. Marks) writes:
>I have read the compatibility list, and the Adaptec SCSI controllers
>1542B and 1740 are on the list, but the Adaptec 1520 and 1522 are not.
>(1522 has a floppy controller on it.)
>Do drivers for this card exist?
No.
>Or if not, is anyone working on supporting this card?
No. Lots of people have expressed interest in having 1520 drivers,
but no one has volunteered to write any.
>I have boot up the current 0.99pl6 kernel on the
>SLS distribution and it does not find my SCSI card and ST296N hard disk.
>Am I doomed to DOS forever?
No, you can buy a supported host adapter, or you can write a
device driver. Adaptec will give you documentation, and a 20M MFM
drive and controller to run GCC off of can be had for next to nothing.
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