Re: SCSI Adapter Support


Subject: Re: SCSI Adapter Support
From: Eddie Bindt (eddieb@xs4all.nl)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 01:05:46 MST


On zondag, november 25, 2001, at 08:58 , Timothy A. Seufert wrote:

> At 8:09 PM -0500 11/23/01, Bob Beaton wrote:
>
>> I've got YDL 2.1 running on some older PowerMacs (7100s and 8500s),
>> which I
>> would like to cluster for some big number-crunching tasks. I'm trying
>> to
>> decide how to upgrade the SCSI disk systems in these machines, since I
>> anticipate needing to do a lot of disk I/O.
>>
>> Does YDL support accelerated SCSI cards? I'm particularly interested
>> in the
>> faster SCSI cards for my Nubus machines, such as the FWB JackHammer or
>> ATTO
For now, you can forget the FWB Jackhammer under linux, I tried the PCI
version. It is regognized as a QLOGIC ISP card. There is a driver for
that card but it is not endian-safe and it does not work under linux on
ppc ...

Eddie



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