On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Peter Peltonen wrote:
>
> I have an old Compaq server (P90) on which I finally got RH6.2 installed.
>
> There are few issues though that I ran to, and they all are SCSI related:
>
> The machine has an old onboard SCSI-controller and a SCSI disk that Linux
> recognizes as ncr53c810 and sda. Uses driver ncr53c8xx.
>
> To this configuration I added a new Tekram controller DC390-U2W and a new U2W
> 9MB IBM disk. From Tekram's home page I read that I should use the ncr53c8xx
> driver for this controller too.
>
> Now the issues:
>
> 1) I installed RH6.2 server a few times on sda. I tried installing LILO both
> to MBR and to the first partition of the sda. It doesn't work: on boot up just
> a blank screen, no LILO prompt. Booting from floppy works. Why is this? What
> am I doing wrong? This machine used to have Win95 and it booted from the hd
> fine.
>
Does LILO give any error message or warning if you boot from floppy, and
then run LILO and try and install it to the hard drive? Do you have any
IDE drives in this machine? There are some exta lines you have to add
to lilo.conf for it to install correctly in a mixed SCSI/IDE system.
>
> 2) The ncr53c8xx recognizes my Tekram controller as ncr53c895 Fast-20 Wide
> SCSI 40MB/s. My controller can do 80MB/s ULTRA2WIDE which is in use and
> reported by the BIOS when booting. How can I enable this? Will updating to a
> newer kernel with a newer ncr-module help?
>
You may want to get the kernel source and read the README.ncr53c8xx file
in the drivers/SCSI directory.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
Mikkel
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