In fact there are three separate SCSI/IDE images for DPT HBAs that go
back at least as far as Slackware 3.4, eata_dma, eata_isa, and eata_pio.

Edgar Allen wrote:
> 
> Randy Reames writes:
> >
> >I have this Olivetti 160/R dual p90 that I am trying to install some
> >flavor of Linux on. It is a scsi all around no ide. It has 4 scsi hds
> >off of a dpt raid controller card and a scsi cdrom. If anyone one has
> >got linux on one of please let me know. It has no support to boot from
> >cdrom so I use a boot disk. I have tried RH, Mandrake, SUSE, and Debian.
> >Which I have successfully installed many times on other machines before.
> >After the standard floppy boot it repeats
> >unknown interrupt
> >over and over. I can catch some message and I believe it is looking for
> >hda and/or hdb which of course their is none. My guess is that I need a
> >boot disk with support for the scsi cdrom. Any other ideas would be most
> >welcome.
> >
> >Randy Reames
> >--
>     The last time I installed Slackware they had a seperate
>     boot image for SCSI installs.
> 
>     You might check them out.  The installs were never as
>     friendly as RedHat et. al. but since this is not your first
>     install you should be OK.
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