[520] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: compaq fast scsi controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu)
Thu Aug 17 10:09:14 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 02:52:21 -0400
From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu
Reply-to: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu
To: pyoung@us.oracle.com
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <9508161456.AA14200@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> (PYOUNG@us.oracle.com)
Paul Young:
When I try to install linux on a Compaq Prolinia using the on board
SCSI controller the auto-probe will not pick up my host adaptor and
anything attach to it. It also gives a message that it could not
find BIOS32 and it needs it. I am sending a copy of the debug dump
I took if this helps. My controller address is 0xc8000.
This is documented ... somewhere.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to my own linux system right now,
and the searchable indexes on the Linux Documentation Project are both
unavailable right now.
Basically, the problem is that compaq put the bios32 stuff in a very
strange location, and to get linux (or netware server) to find it, it
needs to be moved to a more usual location.
From memory, there's a "device driver" available from compaq
(www.compaq.org). Basically, you need to create a config.sys entry
something like:
device=movepci.sys
Of course, this means you need to run dos before linux -- so you have
to use something like loadlin to get linux working.
Just to make sure I'm giving you solid data, I went and looked at
compaq's www site -- it's pointing me at what looks like:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/Drivers/sp1116.zip
[Which, if I remember right, contains just this .sys file.]
--
Raul
