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 -----
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.
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