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- From: scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Help needed with Linux Installation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.211246.9615@natinst.com>
- Keywords: scsi, ultrastor
- Sender: scott@natinst.com
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- Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
- References: <1992Jul24.200628.21296@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:12:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.200628.21296@watson.ibm.com> kyw@watson.ibm.com (Ko-Yang Wang) writes:
- >Hi,
- >I was trying to install Linux but can't get pass the first stage: partitioning
- >the hard disk.
- >I tried both pfdisk in the sc.tamu.edu distribution and pdisk in the
- >mcc-intrerim distribution.
- >
- >I have the following hardware:
- > Gateway 2000 486DX2/50 EISA with ultrastor 24F SCSI controller and
- > Maxtor 340 SCSI hard disk. 16 MB of memory, ATI Graphic Ultra,
- > Irwin 250 tape with no controller.
- >
- >I first partition my hard disk to have one 40 MB DOS primary partition.
- >(I don't have prior PC or DOS experience). I load the backup and everything
- >worked correctly.
- >
- >I then proceed to install Linux.
- >After booting from the floppy, one of the message I got was
- >*** 0 hardisk, 0 tape found.
-
- This message from the SCSI driver indicates that Linux is not recognizing your
- hard disk (unlikely for reasons explained below) or your controller. You
- should have gotten a message indicating which controllers are present and
- which drivers are in use. For example, the UltraStor *14F* driver responds
- with something like "Ultrastor 14F driver version 1.0 alpha by David Gentzel".
- Some informational messages follow, and then the kernel displays "Detected
- X disks, Y tapes total". If X == 0, you've got a problem (assuming there is
- at least one disk attached, of course).
-
- >In the tamu 0.96c+ version, I use pfdisk to do the partition. I did
- > ..... more stuff deleted ....
-
- I imagine that the problem is that the UltraStor 24F is not supported, only
- the 14F is (although allegedly the 14F is the EISA version of the 24F). If
- you can run your 24F in 14F emulation mode, give it a try.
-
- By the way, the FAQ does contain a list of supported SCSI controllers, and the
- 24F is not one of those on the list.
-
- Scott Taylor
- scott@natinst.com
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