On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, casler, heather wrote:
> Hello...I'm hoping someone can answer a question for me.
> I've got an NEC ExpressServer 5800 with an ncr53c896 SCSI chip for the
> on-board controller. Is this actually a supported chip for Linux yet? I've
> looked on the compatibility list and didn't see it listed yet, but was
I didn't find any compatibility list in the Linux kernel tree.
Probably, such a list should exist or I just missed it.
But if you read a not too old README.ncr53c8xx file, you should have seen
the 896 as an entry of a list that summerizes 53C8XX chips that are
supported under Linux.
I use 53C896 controllers since more that 6 months on my personal box and
can claim a zero problem status. And my guess is that Linus should have
used (and may-be still uses) such a controller on his development machine.
The 896 is supported by 2 drivers under Linux (ncr53c8xx and sym53c8xx). I
have invented the sym53c8xx driver 1 year ago to add full support for the
new features of the 53c896 PCI-SCSI controller under Linux.
> wondering what the status of "compatibility" might be. I'm having problems
If you read such from a packager or vendor, it means you may get support
from them if you encounter problems with such hardware.
For the 53c8xx chips you can get help from me (within the time I have for
that) or support from SYMBIOS/LSILOGIC support, the same way you will
get it for a commercial O/S.
> with the box seeing external devices that are attached to an AHA-2944UW (can
> only access the first 4 even though I can see all them that are out there.)
>
> Might there be some type of conflict between different types of SCSI chips
> in a box (like the NCR53c896 & the AIC7xxx)??
Any resource shared by the devices can be a cause of conflicts. But, for
now, I never heared of conflicts between aic7xxx and sym53c896 installed
in the same box (not sharing a SCSI BUS).
G�rard.
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