On Tuesday 13 November 2001 05:47, John Hiemenz wrote: > It has EISA Mach32 video, EISA NetFlex/3 NIC, EISA Inter EtherExpress Pro > NIC, EISA Smart-2/E RAID controller.
[snip] It seems the only way I have been able to get > _any_ linux varient installed to this beast was by replacing the EISA cards > with PCI cards. Seems most drivers are not very EISA aware, even when I am [snip] This is almost certainly due to the fact that although you are, indeed, telling the drivers the correct information, the cards themselves have not been 'prepared', at boot time, to be those values. In otherwords, almost for certain, most, if not all the card-types you list are ISApnp. There are several ways around this, the most basic is to do a pnpdump and generate an /etc/isapnp.conf file with values you would like (a gui replacement for this (Kpnp) exists on linux.nf to do this. However, with the 2.4 series of kernels isapnp is (or should be) part of the kernel and you are going to have to use the values it has determined for you, unless you specifically cripple that module by recompiling. Examine the dmesg output immediately after booting to 'discover' what values the kernel has set for you, for each of the above devices and use them. They are not going to be the values you think you'd like to use. > > I also have a 9GB drive attached to the internal (NCR/SymBios based) scsi > channel, and would cheerfully attempt an install to this device if it is > deemed 'easier', I will then use the RAID for storage. Not sure what you mean by 'easier'. If you simply want to use that drive as additional storage, then there's no problem (I am aware of) with the Symbios drivers is it an NCR53C801? Simply set /etc/modules.conf to alias scsi_hostadapter <whatever> /var/log/messages will tell you after booting what sd number it is and you can then massage /etc/fstab appropriately (for mounting) > I am open to all informed opinions and suggestions. Help! Everyone is entitled to my opinion <slap> -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
