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Hi, has anyone gotten Linux to recognise a Data Technology DTCxxxx
SCSI controller?  Booting up from the SLS install disk, it says that
no scsi host or drive was found.

Thx,

-R

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DTC 3290 and 3292 boards, which are Adaptec 1540 compatable, work fine.

DTC 3270, 3280, and other boards aren't supported and won't be supported
until DTC changes their company policy about giving out programming  
information.  Right now, you need an NDA which says that all information
you get from them is propriety, so source code can't get published.  

Even if that weren't the case, they want all drivers to be public domain
(so the GPL doesn't work), and want the author to provide support through
their bulletin board although the support item on the NDA is hazy and
probably unenforceable.

Quote:>Booting up from the SLS install disk, it says that
>no scsi host or drive was found.

Your host adapter is unsupported, and probably won't be any time soon.

Either forget about Linux and go with a commercial System V unix
which supports the DTC BTLD driver or buy a different, supported
SCSI board or an IDE setup.

Right now, I really like the Bustek boards - they're adaptec 1540
compatable (unlike the new Adaptec boards) so they have great
software support, the driver is quite stable on them, and they're
more affordable than genuine Adaptecs.

I've been able to successfully boot a Linux floppy (various kernel
versions) on an EISA system with a DTC3290HD SCSI controller.  I
believe it recognizes it as an Adaptec.  I haven't actually installed
Linux on the hard drive, but Linux does seem to be able to read the
partition information off the disk.

Paul
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Paul Secinaro

Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering