SCSI controller card

technomage plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 4 May 2002 21:12:29 -0700


advansys makes a very good line of cards fully capable of working in linux (I 
know, I use one). I have had virtually no compatibility issues with y current 
card 9which uses the standard advansys module included with most linux 
distros).

Technomage

On Saturday 04 May 2002 07:32 pm, you wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good SCSI card for linux?
>
>
> I recently got an external RAID server that connects to a SCSI card with a
> cable that I just happened to have laying around.
> When I boot the box with the stuff connected and turned on,
> it checks the ram and everything and then shows me a SCSI card bios thing,
> Then it recognizes all the scsi harddrives in the thing and goes to LILO.
> Having already set up the card (with kudzu), I boot and login, I look for
> stuff in /dev and find nothing, not even in /dev/scsi/*, and MAKEDEV didn't
> work either.
>
> I looked on the web and found that the card I was using,
> an NCR 53C825 based card, was incompatible with linux.
> I think that is the problem because I tried plugging in an internal SCSI
> drive I had laying around and got the exact same result.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Eric
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