Subject: SCSI driver for EATA compilant (DPT,NEC,AT&T) controllers
From: Michael Neuffer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 19:58:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

This is the announcement for the EATA SCSI driver

The driver supports all EATA-DMA Protocol compliant SCSI 
ISA and EISA controllers (PCI rsn.)

Those are for example:
        DPT Smartcache    : PM2011 (ISA), PM2012A (EISA), 
                            PM2012B (EISA) 
            Smartcache III: PM2021 (ISA), PM2022 (EISA), 
                            PM2122 (EISA), PM2322 (EISA)
        controllers from NEC and AT&T.

The driver has been tested on the PM2011, PM2021 and PM2022 

After the fils have been moved from Incoming
they will probably settle in:  
	/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi (tsx-11)
and
	/pub/Linux/ALPHA/scsi (sunsite) 

Additonally you can find them in 
	/pub/Linux/Driver/SCSI ftp.uni-mainz.de

The files are:
	eata.lsm	LSM entry
	eata02c.tgz	the driver
	vmlinuz.eata.gz kernel with many enabled features

I call it still ALPHA software but the driver is pretty stable
and has been used for some months now. There are just some  
features missing (PCI/multiple HAs) which I want to implement
in the next time.

The installation is basically a plug and play installation.
Just "cd" to your linux directory and extract the files from the 
TAR archive. Then you will find the diffile patch.eata
Apply that with  "patch -p1 <patch.eata" against your linux source 
tree. The diffs were made against Linux 1.1.44

The (hopefully) only problem that might appear is that you have
to configure the disk geometry of your first two drives. This 
problem only appears for people who were already able to use
their controller under Linux in IDE emulation mode and are sharing
the drives with DOS or some other OS that operates the controller
in IDE emulation mode (ie. don't use a SCSI driver).

If you've got problems, questions or whatever, send me a mail 

[email-masked]
[email-masked] (Mails<16KB & <48KB per day)

Mike

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