[539] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Compaq Prosignia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Tue Aug 22 13:40:34 1995
To: pyoung@us.oracle.com
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "19 Aug 1995 21:16:28 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:50:12 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <9508200418.AA09113@mailsun2.us.oracle.com>, PYOUNG@us.oracle.com wr
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>NO!! matter what I do I cannot get linux to see the embedded fast 32 scsi 2
>system board adaptor. I am still get BIOS32 not found.
That's from the DPT driver. Assuming you're not trying to use a PCI DPT
board, don't worry about it.
>Can someone help me?
Maybe.
>I cannot install linux if it can't detect the host adaptor. Is it supported?
Not in the distribution kernel. Assuming you're using one of the AMD
(essentially NCR53cf94 + first party DMA engine in one package) chips,
try
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/AM53C974-0.3.tar.gz
>When I use the ncr5380 device driver it always finds the T128 as my host
>adaptor and times out. I get a unknown phase error and it disconnect and
>aborts.
You don't have NCR5380, and if you force detection of one, you can
expect problems.
