Hi, I am trying to install debian onto an AlphaStation 255 and it appears to have a bad onboard SCSI controller -- I cannot boot from any SCSI devices, and when I netboot I get this: sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 sym53c8xx: 53c810a detected sym53c810a-0: rev 0x11 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11 sym53c810a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking sym53c810a-0: suspicious SCSI data while resetting the BUS. sym53c810a-0: dp0,d7-0,rst,req,ack,bsy,sel,atn,msg,c/d,i/o = 0x3ffff, expecting0 sym53c810a-0: FATAL ERROR: CHECK SCSI BUS - CABLES, TERMINATION, DEVICE POWER e! sym53c810a-0: giving up ... ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c810a detected ncr53c810a-0: rev 0x11 on pci bus 0 device 6 function 0 irq 11 ncr53c810a-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking ncr53c810a-0: suspicious SCSI data while resetting the BUS. ncr53c810a-0: dp0,d7-0,rst,req,ack,bsy,sel,atn,msg,c/d,i/o = 0x3ffff, expecting0 ncr53c810a-0: FATAL ERROR: CHECK SCSI BUS - CABLES, TERMINATION, DEVICE POWER e! ncr53c810a-0: detaching... scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. I tried adding and removing terminators, removing the disk, removing cdrom, having no devices on the bus, turning off the termination jumper, changing out the SCSI cable -- pretty much every iteration of the SCSI bus i could come up with. Still no luck. Ok, I can deal with the SCSI controller being dead. I have both a PCI BusLogic bt-947c SCSI controller and an ISA Adaptec 1542b. However it seems that the debian alpha installation kernel doesn't support either of these cards, and there are no modules for the installation kernel to support these cards either. Obviously I can't do any installation until the installer can see a disk to install onto. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get through an install on this machine? Help with either the onboard controller or my other SCSI cards would be great. I'm thinking, if someone has a BusLogic or aha1542 module already compiled for 2.2.20, that would be helpful. (Apparently cross-compiling the kernel for alpha on i386 is non-trivial) thanks, matt toups mtoups@andrew.cmu.edu
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