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Re: Quick Compaq Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Forsyth)
Mon Nov 11 08:06:02 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 08:01:59 -0500
From: "Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>
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Jon Klaren wrote:
>
> On Sat, 09 Nov 1996 ,"Daniel W. Forsyth" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca> wrote:
> >A client of mine will be going to LiNUX in the near future. The server
> >is a Compaq Prosigna VS, I am assuming I will have to dump the main
> >board w/ with Netflex Ethernet card on it... The SCSI controller is an
> >NCR710... I belive that sucker will go too.
>
> Don't know about the SCSI controller, but the NetFlex enet is unsupported
> and no-one's working on it. The SCSI devices should work fine with another
> SCSI controller.
>
> The biggest problem I've run into with Compaq, and I've run into this with
> the DeskPro XL and ProLinea models, is that they put their PCI BIOS in a
> location where Linux can't access it without first running a DOS program to
> relocate the PCI BIOS. That means you can't ever boot linux without first
> booting DOS. It's been a real pain for me because every time Red Hat comes
> out with an excellent new release, I have to hack their bootdisk to use on
> these stupid computers. I'd suggest checking this out by trying to boot a
> Red Hat installation boot disk. If you get kernel messages saying "No PCI
> BIOS found" run away and buy anything else that works.
>
> -Jon
Thanks Jon... I think what I will do is dump that whole board all
together, install an NE2000 & Adaptec and off I go... As long as I can
keep the nice tape drive & cdrom. Thanks again.
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