ISA SCSI controller on Alpha

[Alvin Starr]

Gero Kuhlmann wrote:

>Hello,
>
>for years (almost some decades ;-)) my trusty AxpPCI is working perfectly
>stable, but for adding a ZIP drive I'm now running out of available SCSI
>ID's. Since all PCI slots are used as well, and a ZIP drive doesn't need a
>fast connection, does anyone know what type of ISA SCSI card does work in
>an Alpha environment? I've tried an AHA-1510, but the aha152x driver gives
>me a kernel panic ("insw: memory not short aligned"). As I've read in some
>old archives of this AXP mailing list, the aha152x driver has never been
>ported to Alpha. But how about a AHA-1542 card? Does that work in an
>Alpha? They should be quite cheap on eBay...
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>gero.
>
>  
>
Unfortunatly the 1452 requires BIOS initialization and although the 
there is enough x86 bios emulation to do VGA it seems that the 1542 will 
not quite work.
I remember giving it a try a few years ago and eventualy giving up.


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