Re: srm and scsi controllers.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:39:01PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Raoul Gaasch wrote:
>
> > Does booting debian from SRM only works with a certain SCSI controllers?
>
> Depends on which controller and the SRM support of same for the
> motherboard you have. I have an SX and I recently switched to SRM from
> AlphaBIOS. I use a Tekram 390F (Symbios 53c875) and have had no problems
> booting from either of my hard drives.
Depends not only on the manufacturer (BusLogic is NOT supported), but also
the specific chipset - NCR/Symbios 810/875/895 are fine, 860 was not.
SRM supports, in general, only the options which we (DEC/COMPAQ) have
sold to run under OSF1/DU/Tru64 or VMS. That some cards that we've not
sold will work, ie some of the SCSI NCR810/875/895 or QLogic or
(recently) Adaptec ones, or some of the third party TULIP NICs, is
luck... ;-}
But you're out of luck with BusLogic under SRM if you boot from it; if
you can boot another way (from a supported SCSI or IDE disk or over
the net) then you can stick with SRM, otherwise go back to AlphaBIOS
and MILO...
Good luck.
--Jay++
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Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project
Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20 (508) 467-2080
200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com
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