From: drew@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: newbie installation problem, linux does not see scsi drive Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 13:18:30 GMT
In article <1993Aug5.224319.16505@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> hitt@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) writes:
>I'm trying to install SLS Linux on my 386 machine, but it doesn't
>see that i have any hard disks.
>
>As far as i can tell, this problem is not mentioned in the FAQ.
>
>The setup:
>CPU: AMD 386
>RAM: 4 M
>BIOS: American Megatrends
>SCSI card: DTC 3280AS (from Data Technology Corporation)
From the FAQ, SCSI section :
QUESTION: What hardware is not supported?
ANSWER: The Adaptec 152x, 151x, and AIC-6260, non-Adaptec 154x compatable DTC,
Mylex, PS/2 SCSI boards, all SCSI ports on sound boards, the trantor
parallel->SCSI adapter, Rancho SCSI boards, Grass Roots SCSI boards,
Trantor SCSI boards (although a T128/T128F/T228 driver is being written,
should be easily adaptec to other NCR5380 based boards).
>
>The BIOS is marked showing no C drive (or D drive) as per the instructions
>with the DTC 3280AS, and the card works (at least for DOS); the drive
>also works (for DOS).
Anything with a BIOS will work under DOS, only hardware with
specific device drivers will work under Linux since we must
talk directly to the hardware.
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