[ale] Adaptec 1740 card

[Dan Newcombe]

Does the card work under Linux, regardless of any messages?

I have one, and I had to do a lot of configuring with the #%!$ EISA
utility to get it to work right.  Actually, to install debian, I had to
put an OLD vga card in the machine (the ATI chipset caused the monitor to
scroll under debian install, but not when I built my own kernel) and I
also put a SMC Ultra card in for the install, until I compiled my own
kernel with SMC Ultra EISA support.

Basically, I've decided that EISA is EVIL.

	-Dan

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Daniel Boyd wrote:

> I realize this is slightly off-topic, but the above mentioned card IS 
> running in a Linux box!  When the machine boots up I receive a 
> message from the 1740 card that "Shadow RAM diagnostics 
> failed".  Adaptec wants to charge for any info about this card and I 
> don't have the manuals.  Does anyone know what this means 
> (beyond the obvious) and if it will affect me if I am not using a boot 
> device on this card?  Thanks in advance!
> 
> Dan
> 
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