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Re: Pentium/Neptune, NCR 53C810, Fujitsu M2915S-512 Slackware 2.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Anderson)
Thu Jun 15 23:35:08 1995
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:02:25 +0800 (CST)
From: Jeremy Anderson <jsa@TranSend.com.tw>
To: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506152349.RAA03449@chopper.poohsticks.org>
On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Drew Eckhardt wrote:
> In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.950615120118.18547A-100000@transend.com.tw>, jsa@tran
> send.com.tw writes:
>
> No idea what's going on there; like the SCSI-HOWTO says, you
> should include the kernel revision when you're having a problem since
> there's no way for the developers to keep track of what Slackware
> revision X.Y corresponds to.
kernel is 1.2.8 Sorry for the omission.
> >Boot from Slackware 2.1 stock SCSI 1.44 boot disk:
kernel here is 1.1.9 (I believe)
> >hd=3012,15,89
>
> Note that hd=x,x,x will force detection of an IDE hard drive; probably
> not what you want. Also, whatever the physical parameters are are
> irelevant - we're interested in a BIOS compatable mapping. If you
> partition the drive with the ones provided by the NCR driver, you will
> be able to make one big honkin partition that spans up to 8G and still
> be able to run LILO on it.
>
> >Any other combinations I've tried result in failure. (And this one
> >doesn't work very well).
>
> You should qualify "Doesn't work very well".
Happily.
1) I can ONLY have one big partition. I don't WANT a single 2Gig
partiton actually. If I try to do multiple partitions, any attempts
to boot LILO result in:
LI
and then a hang (looks like it read the boot sector and then couldn't
find the rest).
2) For it to boot under LILO, I have to specify the hd parameter, which
does go looking for an IDE drive which is not there.
I want to thank everyone who's written in with advice so far. I'll be
spending today reviewing what's been sent so far. If you need anything
from Taipei (tea, incense... scary fast mainboards) please don't hesitate
to call.
Jeremy Anderson jsa@transend.com.tw
System Administrator work: 886-2-706-9089
Transend Internet Co. Fuhsing S. Rd., Sec. 2
#236, 5F-4 Taipei, ROC
