From: steveb@wixer.bga.com (Steve Benz) Subject: Got trouble: Linux doesn't see UltraStor SCSI adaptor Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 15:27:16 GMT
A friend of mine came to town this weekend with the intent of getting
Linux installed on his machine -- I'd told him it'd be an easy one-afternoon
task, but I'm afraid I ended up with egg on my face...
When we booted Linux on his machine from the SLS A1 disk it claimed
that it saw 0 hosts, 0 disks, 0 CD-ROM's, and 0 tape drives.
Figuring that it was just a problem with that disk, we booted with
HJ's rootdisk, but that didn't do any better. And according to the
hardware compatability list, it oughta work. His machine is a
Tristar GA-486VT 33MHz DX2 with an UltraStor 14f HF ISA SCSI Host
adapter & a Seagate ST3550N hard disk at SCSI ID 0 & a Texel CDRom
at SCSI ID 2.
I'm hoping we just need to set some sort of jumper or something like
that to get it to work, but I couldn't find anything that made sense
to either of us. (The SCSI HowTo is definitely written for SCSI gurus --
or at least people who know alot about SCSI interfaces, which neither
of us do.)
In addition, and here's another case where I'm almost certainly being
a bonehead or something -- when SLS boots, it chucks up a prompt that
says something to the effect of remove the a1 disk and put in the
``utilities'' disk and then press 1 if you put it in a 5.25" A drive,
2 if you put it in a 3.5" A drive, etc.
What utilities disk?
I installed SLS myself about a million years ago, and I remember being
stumped on that same question, but I somehow figured out what to do there,
but this time things didn't work out that way... I thought for sure that
this utilities disk was either A1 or A2, but neither of those approaches
seemed to work. Finally I went over to my machine and constructed a floppy
with a minix file system and a bunch of stuff that looked useful on it
(fdisk, mke2fs, etc.) That worked, but it was pretty much for nothing
since Linux didn't think /dev/sda was connected to anything.
So anyway, that's my story, and I'd sure appreciate it if somebody could
clear things up for me.
- Steve