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Need help with booting from big SCSI disk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Doolittle - Sun Parallel Open )
Mon Feb 27 14:45:05 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 11:06:02 -0500
From: rad@via.East.Sun.COM ( Bob Doolittle - Sun Parallel Open Systems)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: david@via.East.Sun.COM
I have a 2G drive, and am trying to install Linux (from the Slackware CD-ROM
release with the 1.0.9 Linux kernel). I have an Adaptec 1542b controller
with the BIOS upgrade for extended translation. I have a few problems
that I'd really appreciate some help on.
First off, if this is my third disk, can I boot off it at all, using
LILO? My assumption is no, because the BIOS only supports two drives.
Which leads me to the next question...
When I configure my drive for unit 1, (the second SCSI drive), I get the
"interrupt received but no mailbox" message, and I can't see any SCSI
devices. In the SCSI howto, this is a known problem with kernels
earlier than .99.14k. Since I am supposedly running a 1.0.9 kernel,
why do I still see this message? I don't think I want to disable
extended translation on this drive (because then dos can't see my large
DOS partition at the beginning of it). Any ideas?
Thanks a lot!
-Bob
Bob Doolittle
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Phone: (508) 442-2635
2 Elizabeth Drive, MS UCHL03-206 Fax: (508) 442-0011
Chelmsford, MA 01824 E-mail: rad@East.Sun.COM
