[2261] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Booting Linux from Jaz on PCMCIA-SCSI-Card of Laptop (GW2K
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Fukatsu)
Thu Aug 7 13:08:03 1997
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 09:22:00 -0700
To: Peter Bruhn <bruhn@uiuc.edu>, linux-laptop@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Michael Fukatsu <mfukatsu@gauss.ee.calpoly.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970804003105.14624E-100000@ux9.cso.uiuc.edu>
I setup a desktop to do this, (they didn't wan't me to mess with the HD).
It's not a very straight forward task. You may have to give the kernel
parameters for your SCSI card (I did). Then you can at least see the drive
to install on it. I created a boot floppy that has both LILO and a kernel
with SCSI support on is (see the BOOTDISK-HOWTO). However, I don't
recommend using a Jaz drive for a file system that is going to get used
alot. The Jaz Disks aren't made to be used like hard drives (I guess
that's why they spin down every 15 minutes or so). I've only used my ext2
filesystem a couple times and I'm alreadyt getting tons of errors. In
contrast, I've been running Linux on my Thinkpad's internal HD for a couple
of years and have had no such errors AT ALL. So beware....
-Mike
At 12:49 AM 8/4/97 -0500, Peter Bruhn wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>I am going to install Linux on a Gateway 2000 Solo Laptop. It has a PCMCIA
>SCSI-I-Card (Iomega Zip Card) and a Iomega Jaz-Drive (and a
>PCMCIA-ethernet-card, too). I want to have Win 95 on the Harddisk and
>Linux on a Jaz Disk. Did anybody do such an installation before?
>
>The problem is that I would like to boot Linux from the Jaz drive, but
>at boot time the Jaz is not available since there is no SCSI-driver and
>no PCMCIA-driver yet.
>
>(I also have problems to access the Jaz and the IDE-CD-ROM under DOS.
>Somehow the Gateway Solo Laptop recognizes neither the SCSI-card nor the
>CD-ROM in the MS-DOS mode, but it works under Win 95. Gateway-support
>spent two hours with me on the phone today, without finding a solution
>yet. Maybe anyone of you is smarter than Gateway and me. It would be great!)
>
>I would highly appreciate to get any helpful tips very soon, since I
>couldn't find enough information about it on all the how-to-pages and
>don't want to spend days and weeks to test every possible way. All pages
>I found so far deal either with SCSI or PCMCIA or Jaz or ..., but never
>with my difficult configuration.
>
>Thank you very much for your help
>
>Peter
>
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