Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:41:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com> To: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0210151332240.697-100000@poptart.bithose.com> In-Reply-To: <20021015030414.P41308-100000@view.scoundrelz.net>
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This thread reminds me of an issue with a PC164 system I was given recently. It was an NT/ARC system with a "NT-only" Symbios/NCR SCSi controller (i.e. doesn't show up in SRM). The SRM is whatever the latest Compaq update CD has on it, I forget the version at the moment. So I decided to try IDE disks. The thing is, it only sees the primary channels IDE master, and no other devices. That is, if you put a hard disk as primary master, it shows as dqa0. If you plug in a CDROM drive anywhere (primary/slave, secondary master or slave) it doesn't show up. If you disconnect the hard drive and put the CDROM in its place, you get it as dqa0 again. I booted a Linux floppy on the machine (dva0) and it kernel was able to find the dqa0 hard drive /and/ the undetected-by-SRM CDROM. End result was that a CDROM install worked fine when booted from floppy. But I'm still stuck where I can't boot from IDE CDROM (dqb0?) and install to the dqa0 disk. Netbooting is less that optimal since I might want to install Tru64 on it, and the's kinda ugly. Any pointers? #!/jameel/akari for zig in $(find / -name zig); do rm -f "$zig"; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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