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Paul Ashman (paulk@grace.ssabsa.sa.gov.au) wrote:
: In article <40l6gj$26@lucy.swin.edu.au>, 874860@bud.swin.edu.au says...
: >
: >I have a rather hairy hardware/Linux problem here. I hope someone can
: >help me.
: ...
: >The system specifications:
: >
: >p90, 16MB of RAM
: >Gigabyte GA586IP Motherboard (ISA/PCI)
: >GA-410 ncr53c810 PCI SCSI controller (also tried aha1542B and aha1542CF)
: >Micropolis 1G HDD (also tried Connor 540M)
: >IDE hard disk controller
: >4-port serial card
: >ISA VGA card
: >

: Disable your IDE disk controller when using the SCSI hard disk. Remove it
: if you can. Do not mix IDE Hard Disks and SCSI Hard Disks in the one system.
     I've got an Western Digital Caviar 420 meg drive (IDE) here *points*
and a Zip (SCSI) on loan from a friend here *points*, compiling XFree86 for
me 8-).  They get along fine.  The SCSI disk is /dev/sda1 mounted as zip,
and /dev/hda2 is /.. no problems.  (I know it's physically impossible due to
the ISA bus design, but...) they even appear to be able to access
simultaneously 8-).

: When using your SCSI hard disk do the following,

: 1. set the SCSI ID of the first hard disk to 0
:    the system will try to boot from SCSI device 0 on startup

: 2. ensure the SCSI chain is terminated correctly.

: 3. ensure that the "BIOS is enabled" on the SCSI card so that the system
:    will try to boot from a SCSI device.



: >  Vendor: MICROP    Model: 4110-09TBCU0322L  Rev: HT01
: >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
: >Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 4, lun 0
: >scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.

: Looks as though the Hard Disk has SCSI id 4.


: Hope this helps.
: Paul Ashman