Joe Loyall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to install the Debian 2.0 distribution on a Compaq Prosignia VS, >which has a Compaq SCSI controller built into the motherboard. > >I don't see any Compaq SCSI devices listed in the Linux Hardware >Compatibility HOWTO document, and when I boot from the rescue disk, it >doesn't find the SCSI controller. > >Does anybody know a way to get Linux to see this controller, or am I out of >luck. Unfortunately, Compaq has a great tradition of inventing their own proprietary hardware that's not compatible with anything else and not giving out any details about it. I don't know of a driver for Compaq's SCSI adapters and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere that there would exist any. On the other hand, my computer has two UW Adaptec channels built-in on the motherboard. They use the latest chipsets from Adaptec that doesn't even, as far as I know, exist on any PCI cards yet. Linux recognized them right away without problems, a feat that not even Microsoft's operating system could repeat.
