From: rbroders@oracle.com (Robert Brodersen) Subject: Problems installing linux (was Re: Advice about UltraStor34F ...) Date: 2 Jul 1993 03:04:33 GMT
Warner Losh writes:
>I've been using the UltraStor 34F for some time now and it works just
>fine. I had to get a special boot disk to get it to install, but the
>latest SLS works just fine. I suspect that it may be related to
>people trying to put the 34F into a 50MHz machine. The VESA bus isn't
>really speced that high (33 or 40 is the upper end I've been told), so
>some cards might not work well at that speed.
I have been trying to install linux on my new machine
AMI Super Voyager motherboard w/486DX2-66 CPU
UltraStor 34F SCSI controller w/1.2GB Maxtor drive
I was able to shrink my DOS partition, but when I boot Linux (from the
a1.3 disk from SLS on tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/SLS as of 6/29),
Linux can't find my SCSI controller.
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: detected 0 scsi disks 0 tapes 0 cd-rom drives total
Linux 0.99pl8-3 4/10/93 20:17
I have looked everywhere for a fix. The FAQ, this newsgroup. There
was some discussion that the ultrastor driver doesn't like controllers
with a Port I/O address of 0x310. However my controller has the
following settings: Port 0x330, BIOS addr 0xC8000, IRQ 14. I am
unwilling to try 'random' other settings.
My conclusions: SLS does NOT support ultrastor controllers - at least
not the latest on tsx-11 - should I look somewhere else? I need to get a
'special' boot disk which does support ultrastor controllers. Needless
to say, I cannot build such a disk myself. Can anybody help me out here?
P.S. Getting a small IDE disk to start linux with is not an option!
P.S.S. Isn't the SLS on tsx-11 quite a bit out of date? (i.e. almost
two months? or is that not an issue since you rebuild a boot image
once you have completed your install?)