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Re: Compaq ProSignia scsi-2 HOW?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Beitler)
Tue Feb 3 11:28:31 1998

Date: 	Tue, 03 Feb 98 08:25:50 PST
From: "David Beitler" <dbeitler@ndcwireless.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, Mike Ferrari <magnet@htls.lib.il.us>

     I believe it is one of the NCR drivers, the NCR53C7xx I'm pretty sure
     
     At least this seems to work for the Prosignia pentium machines.
     
     David Beitler
     dbeitler@ndcwireless.com


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Subject: Compaq ProSignia scsi-2 HOW?
Author:  Mike Ferrari <magnet@htls.lib.il.us> at INTERNET
Date:    2/2/98 8:47 AM


>Friends,
>
>Who has experience to install OpenLinux/Linux on Compaq ProSignia 
>486DX2-66 Model that
>has integrated scsi-2 controller.  Please let me know how. 
>
>I dump IRQ from bios result as follow: 
>    IRQ 14, Not Shared, Level Triggered
>    Port Range(s): 8000h - 801Fh, Not Shared 
>
>Waiting someone give some help.
>
>Kris
>
>
I know this wont answer your question but i have a similar situation.
     
I don't know where to turn, so I thought id ask everyone on this list. I 
have a Compaq ProSignia server, (486DX2, 66mhz) that we replaced with a 
faster server. I wanted to load Slakware on this machine and use it for 
testing. The motherboard has a built-in SCSI controller (machine ID cpq0621 
if that means anything), in the compaq config utility it says "SCSI 
controller....embedded". I have a Seagate hard drive(st32550n) and a Pioneer 
CD ROM (dr-124x) connected to the controller.
The problem is that I cant install linux because I don't know what kind of 
SCSI controller is "embedded" in the mother board. I've read the linux SCSI 
HOW-TO from top to bottom and i still cant figure out how to get it to 
load(I've even tried guessing which ones listed in the how-to were closest 
to the compaq). I would appreciate any input or suggestions that would 
point me in the right direction. I think I remember about a month ago 
someone mentioning that they were having problems with the world of 
proprietary Compaqs and linux. It would be a shame to have to use this nice 
server as parts.
     
Thanks again in advance
Mike Ferrari  magnet@htls.lib.il.us


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