Re: Help for a poor old software developer

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help! I havn't yet looked at this (maybe over the weekend),
but I also need hardware specs.... I found a lotta good stuff by applying the
Tillis-Hartwell transformation, expressable as:

                URL=http://www.$COMPANYNAME.com

In this case, http://www.adaptec.com yielded a good deal of info on the card
speacs, but noithing as specific as jumpers. I did download a bunch (well, 3)
text files which may have the nitty-gritty.  Once I've moved this along, I'll 
let you know how it's going...

> Shawm Mattingly provided the following sage words....             
>Look under the help listing for Adaptec AHA-152X when you re-compile your
>kernel...it just happens to be a catchall driver for older Adaptec adapters and
>single chip scsi devices, including the embedded SCSI device on a Soundblaster
>16 SCSI (which is what my CDROM drive is currently hooked up to).  It works very
>well, I've used the driver for a 1510+Zip drive before, the only caveat being
>that you'll have to add an "append=" line to your lilo.conf file so the card
>gets recognized on boot.

>Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
>> Anyone out there know anything about an Adaptec AHA 1510A SCSI Controller
>> Card?  I'm looking for jumper settings, tips, drivers, sepecail addressing
>> considerations.  This is a great card.... it has ONE chip on it, space for
>> a lot more, a few resistors and capacitors, and ONE jumper block. If I
>> saw this in the store, I'd say someone was developing a card, but got tired
>> of the project and on to better things.
>>
>> Even uproarious laughter ("What? You wanna use THAT with Linux?") would be a
>> help...
>>                                                         Thanks and Regards,
>>                                                             ---> RGB <---