Subject: Re: Adaptech-1542 driver. Linking system. From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David R. Giller) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 17:02:20 PST
> Hi Linuxers,
>
> I'm in the unfortunate situations that I cannot boot
> Linux:-< My problem is my Adaptech-1542 controler, that
> Linux doesn't know about.
I have some happy news for all you out there using an EISA bus PC with
a Mylex EICS SCSI controller (probably just me). This also applies to
all you with a SCSI controller that emulates IDE or ST-506.
Linux works with these drives! I am going to see if I can slink some
sample code from the Mylex people to include in my kernel to enable
things like hardware caching and 32-bit mode, but as it is, the drive
works.
I am not out of trouble yet, though. I found out that my Mylex emulates
IDE the hard way: I installed an IDE to coexist, and the combination trashed
my drive. Bummer. After the dust cleared, however, I had a drive that
was partitioned better and uses the controller features better under DOS and
OS/2.
Then, while trying to install Linux, to my dismay -- Minix no longer boots.
No matter what I do, on any disk I might try, I always get 'root filesystem
corrupted' and panic stop from the minix kernel on startup. Anyone have
any clues? This setup worked before... All I chaanged was the partition table.
Has anyone created a linux mkfs?
Thanks,
-Dave
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