[ale] Anyone use the HP P'n'P SCSI card for scanners w/Linux?

[Brad Sawyer]

On a related note...
    I recently purchased a low price Kouwell SCSI card which uses the
symbios chip 53c810a, plugged into a new Micronics PPro (Invader ATX,
Phoenix bios) and it never saw the drive.  Checked the Symbios web site and
under the win95 faq it listed problems with different MB bios.  It said that
some Phoenix bios did not work with it, you were out of luck and should try
a different card. Other bios  took additional mods.  I plugged in an Adaptec
2940 PCI card and it loaded immediately.  Plugged the Symbios card into my
MTech PPro with Award bios, modified the cmos according to the faq and it
worked fine.

brgds
Brad Sawyer

-----Original Message-----
 From: John M. Mills <jmills at jmills.gtri.gatech.edu>
To: ale at cc.gatech.edu <ale at cc.gatech.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 4:30 PM
Subject: [ale] Anyone use the HP P'n'P SCSI card for scanners w/Linux?


>
>ALE'rs--
>
>Before wandering out to spend money, I wondered if anyone had managed to
>run the OEM Symbios PnP SCSI card which comes with H-P scanners (mine is a
>4p) under Linux?  I haven't tried use PnP under Linux -- the card is a
>"throw-away" H-P delivers with the scanner, and for which neither Symbios
>nor (AFAIK) H-P provides any support information.
>
>I know I should also be praying to the patron of lost causes, but ...
>
>  John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer   --   john.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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