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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: WD 7000 FASST SCSI ADAPTER
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.062147.19884@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1992Sep11.184422.3286@udel.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:21:47 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1992Sep11.184422.3286@udel.edu> golden@pineapple.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden) writes:
- >
- > Hi! I'm new to Linux, and am struggling to make Linux work on my 386SX.
- >I have a WD7000 FASST scsi controller, and understand that linux is supposed
- >to support it. I'm not having any luck making it work.
- >
- > I've tried both the 0.97 and the SLS release from tsx-11.mit.edu. Linux
- >boots successfully from floppy disk, but is unable to find my hard drive. It
- >boots with 0 host adapters, 0 scsi drives, and 0 tapes found. Fdisk also
- >does not work, failing with "unable to read /dev/hda2". This shouldn't happen,
- >right?
-
- Not finding the host adapter shouldn't happen. Being unable to read /dev/hda2
- should happen, since the SCSI devices are separate from the "normal" disk
- devices.
-
- > I've discovered a WD-7000 patch on tsx-11, but cannot figure out how to
- >apply it: I can't get anything on the drive to patch. I don't think I
- >need to apply it against 0.97 anyway...
-
- .97 incorporates the latest publically available SCSI code.
-
- > I wish to put linux in a 3rd, 60Mb partition on my hard drive (the first
- >two partitions belonging to DOS). I've attempted loading Linux on the drive
- >when partitioned with the SSTSETUP utility and with MsDos's FDISK (when all
- >the SST partitions have been deleted).
- >
- > I've hit a dead-end, and am becoming frustrated. Any help would be
- >GREATLY appreciated.
-
- Some of the SCSI drivers, including the WD7000 driver, check for a BIOS
- signature to handle autoconfiguration. Your card MUST have BIOS enabled,
- at address 0xce0000 for the Western Digital board to be detected.
-
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-