On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, John McLaren wrote: > Help Needed! > > After looking around for a 486 to dedicate to linux, a 5-year-old > "ex-bleeding-edge" server became available cheaply, containing an > EISA mb and Ultrastor 22CA EISA ESDI cacheing controller running > two Micropolis drives--seemed like a good buy at the time > (performs flawlessly on dos/windows). > > I turned off cacheing and shadowing and started to load the latest > Debian boot/root disks. All seemed to go as per the book--hard > drive/controller identified ok etc--until it found 1 scsi host, > identified as an Ultrastor 24F. Not surprisingly, it could get no > response, eventually tried to reset it, and hung at: > "US14F: reset: called" > > Is there some simple command or parameter to give at the "boot:" > prompt which will stop the program looking for scsi hardware? All > I could find in help files were suggestions for what to do if your > installed scsi card wasn't found--not the other way 'round!
I believe you can specify a non-existant address, and it "won't see it". Just specify it like to something to an address that you KNOW is not used!!! I had a similiar problem with my sbpcd YEARS ago, when I tried YGGSDRASIL Linux. I threw that CD away the next day, BTW :) Daniel ====== http:/www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Organizer of Jax-LUG! Email me for details! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]