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CPQ 4704 pcibios_init failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D.J. Roberts)
Fri Jan 23 12:53:51 1998
From: "D.J. Roberts" <djr@leicester.ac.uk>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:39:16 +0000 (GMT)
Greetings linux-scsi people -
I have a Compaq Presario 4704.
When I boot from LILO into RHL 4.1 I get exactly the
message noted in Section 5.2.7 of the SCSI-HOWTO, ie
pcibios_init: entry in high memory, unable to access
As recommended, I have sought out and downloaded the
Compaq SoftPAQ 0921. But I can find no supporting
documentation on the Compaq Web site or FTP server,
and the .ZIP file contains only a DOS .EXE
I am not usually in the habit of unleashing undocumented
binaries on my hardware, so can someone please tell me -
. does this softPAQ make a permanent change to the BIOS,
or does it just do a relocation in memory until the
next coldstart of the hardware
. have YOU personally run this .EXE on your hardware with
no ill effects
Also, it might be that I don't need to worry about the
pcibios_init failure, since the scanpci utility under
RHL correctly reports the SCSI adapter as being present.
Comments?
Thanks for any feedback.
--
David J. Roberts djr@leicester.ac.uk
