Thank's for the reply - the ide solution was rolling around in my mind too - the thing is i already have a nice scsi cdrom and a cdwriter... oh well, I guess for installation purposes I could add an ide cdrom and also a small ide just to put the bootloader and /boot partition on... but let the system basically run from the u2w scsi disks. What do you think? The 875 based cards I tried were a Kouwell(?) card with the chip labeled 53c875E and an actual LSI card with the chip labeled 53c875JE i think... Thank's, Mike On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:03:08PM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:51:56AM -0700, Mike Campbell wrote: > > > I have a PC164 system (not lx or sx). I have a Symbios 53C875 and a > > 53C895 in it, neither of which is shown when i do "show device". In > > fact, All that shows up is dva0.0.0.1, the floppy. > > > > Consequently I have been booting from floppies (yech). > > > > I tried a couple differnt cards with the 875 chip, but nothing. > > When I do a show config there is a listing for ncr53c8xx in the pci > > section (just one), and, when I flash the new srm image, the update > > utility says something like "Loading device drivers" and it shows > > "ncr53c8xx", so it knows the card is there, but it wont boot from > > it. > > > > My srm version says 5.5-1 when i start up the computer - Is this the > > latest one? I have seen people talk about 5.6, and there are > > release notes on the dec ftp site about 5.6, but this is all I can > > come up with. What can I do (besides find anoither scsi > > controller)? > > Yes, 5.5-1 is indeed the latest (last, IIRC) version of SRM for the PC164. > > I just tried an NCR 875-based controller (IntraServer Technology > 3140U-4), and it worked like a charm, saw all the disks attached to > it, and booted from one of them. > > IIRC, there was another 875 from IntraServer, but without the "U" in > its number, that did NOT work well under SRM. I think they (875-based > cards) were relatively new back then, and SRM may be quite fussy about > which ones it will support. > > I don't hold out much hope for the 895, that'd be too recent... > > HOWEVER, I do have a workaround to propose... :-) > > I was just able to boot from an IDE disk and CDROM attached to the > closest-to-the-edge-of-mobo of the IDE pinouts (it's NOT a socket :-) > at the board-edge side of the memory SIMM sockets. They showed up as > "dqa0" and "dqa1" under SRM, and "just worked"... :-) > > So, throw away that floppy... :-) > > --Jay++ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support > Hewlett-Packard Company - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 > 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 Jay.Estabrook@hp.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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