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- From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
- Subject: Re: EISA and the abounding unix clones
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.113617.27970@newshost.unh.edu>
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- Organization: University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH
- References: <1992Aug12.192445.20894@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> <1992Aug12.201620.16694@newshost.unh.edu> <1992Aug12.210635.29658@natinst.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:36:17 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Aug12.210635.29658@natinst.com> scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor) writes:
-
- >>Well, all I know is that Linux didn't like my 486/33 EISA system with
- >>DTC 3290HD SCSI controller, which is supposed to be Adaptec 1542
- >>compatible. It seemed to detect the controller and read the partition
- >>table properly when the bootimage was coming up, but then efdisk
- >>failed with an error when it tried to open /dev/hda. I don't know if
- >>this is a general problem with EISA or just my controller.
- >>
- >Neither. The first SCSI disk is accessed as /dev/sda (major number 8, minor
- >number 0), the second is /dev/sdb, etc.; /dev/hda refers to the first drive
- >on an AT-style interface (MFM, RLL, IDE). If /dev/sda doesn't exist on the
- >root disk (I haven't seen a root disk since 0.95 ;-) ), make it with mknod.
- >"mknod /dev/sda b 8 0" should do it. Incidentally, if you got that far I
- >would guess that linux DOES run on *your* EISA machine.
-
-
- Thanks, Scott.
-
- Okay, sorry folks. False alarm. I was unaware that you had to use
- /dev/sd<x> for SCSI devices (that's what you get for not reading the
- FAQ). I tried it last night, and "efdisk /dev/sda" brought up the
- partition tables with no problem.
-
- So, to sum it up, an EISA system with a Data Technology Corp. 3290HD
- controller DOES seem to work with Linux so far (I haven't actually
- installed it, but everything looks okay).
-
- Paul
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