On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:24:12PM -0600, Shawn wrote: > Okay, so I've got this old server with EISA slots. I keep hearing that Linux > doesn't support EISA systems very well. Is this true, if so is there a > distro that has this figured out now? > > If not, what other options do I have to use for an OS? > > It's a dual pentium system, 128 MB ram, 5 internal scsi drives (either 500MB > or 1GB each), as well as two external scsi drives, tape drive, cdrom. > There's no IDE drives in there currently. Even though they are EISA slots its probably a pci bus. EISA buses weren't used much in the pentium era ( if at all? ). I think EISA pretty much died when PCI came out ~1995 and Pentiums were '95 or '96 weren't they? Anyhow Linux has all kinds of support for PCI busses and if you need to use an EISA card you just need to find a driver for it. Its been a while since I had to configure one but the last time I did they didn't support hardware probing (or it wasn't safe at least) and you usually had to supply the irq. If you can't find a use for it I would surely take it off your hands :-) -- Marc A. Ohmann Digital Solutions, Inc http://ds6.net marc at ds6.net