Philipp, Thanks. I'll do what I can. The 3c509 is just a 10M card, so no worries there. I just have to get used to the fact that I need set it up after the install. But of course I can't do an update via ftp, since it's the eth0 (world_dev) NIC. The Tekram SCSI card finds the SCSI drive and loads it automatically. It does it when the I turn the machine on, after the memory test and the bios screen appears. It runs through the LUN routine, then checks for SCSI devices, and finds the Seagate drive. Then the SuSE floppy boots. That's why it seems a little weird. On the other hand, the bios has provisions to boot from the CD-ROM, but even though I've set it that way, nothing in the drive (not any SuSE CD's anyway) will boot. Just one of life's little mysteries. One of these days, though, I will probably wind up installing 6.4, just to see if it works as well on the SCSI drive as it does on IDE. It's rock solid (knock on wood). Thanks, Stan Koper ----- Original Message ----- From: Philipp Thomas To: Stan Koper Cc: John Karns ; cll muzh ; Samy Elashmawy ; SuSE Linux Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.1 Won't Install, and Worse Hi Stan, * Stan Koper [Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:21:39 -0500]: First of all, could you in the future please use a line length of about 75 chars? This makes reading and quoting of your mail much easier.
I went through the autoprobe, put in the modules disk per instructions it located the tekram SCSI card, and the Realtek NIC (but not the 3com 3C509).
Plain ISA cards can't be detected automatically, the drivers have to be inserted manually. I'd try this: - Use the DOS tool for the 3C509 to configure it at a fixed speed, i.e. either 10 mbit/sec or 100 mbit/sec. Note the IRQ and I/O port the card is configured for (if it isn't a PnP ISA card). - Boot from either floppy or CDROM. - at the boot: prompt enter manual - Manually load the modules for your SCSI controller and possibly the modules for your network cards, possibly passing parameters to the 3C509 card (for details on the parameters see the big manual). Loading the modules will give you a box with the output. For the SCSI driver you should see if it found your hard drive and for the network cards you should see if loading succeeded. -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390