On 22 Sep, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a > model that is know it works with Debian linux? >
There is a complete list of supported cards at http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/SUPPORTED.CARDS Unfortunately, there is no information as to how well each one works. Anything listed as a supported card is supported by the pcmcia package(s) distributed as part of Debian, though you may have to recompile the pcmcia modules to match your kernel. Anything listed as supported by a contributed driver is not (yet) supported by the Debian packages, though you can probably add the contributed drivers in yourself fairly easily. I have a recent New Media Bus Toaster, which is only supported by a contributed driver; however, it was fairly easy to rebuild the pcmcia package to include the new driver, and it has worked well for me. I've used a CDROM, a Syquest EZ-drive and a Seagate tape backup with it. The Bus Toaster was also relatively inexpensive (I got mine at an auction), which made a big difference in my decision. HTH, -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
