On Sun, 27 May 2001 10:38:17 +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
>recently I received a 3110 series compaq server (1994, old stuff) that
>should be used for some remote administration.
>
>The system's got W2K and W98 (or 95 ?) installed on a disk and has no
>problems with SCSI.
>
>under linux, I can't get things to work at all.
>
>I tried both the normal NCR driver as well as the SIM710 driver to no
>avail.
>
>I know this is not a help-me list so teh question is not HOW but, _can_
>I install linux at all here ?
The answer is, probably... if you try hard enough. I got a 2.4 kernel
to work on a Compaq ProLiant 1000 which has the same SCSI controller on
it but I had to hack on the sim710 driver to make it work. Mine also
had a SmartArray controller in it and I had to patch _that_ to
request_region() its io port so that sim710 didn't try to probe it.
Without that patch the SmartArray driver grabs the io port and uses it
without registering it so that anything else that tries to use it
thinks it can but when it tries then the whole system hangs.
I also patched the sim710 driver to do autodetection of the EISA
chipset based ncr53c710 and sent that patch to the sim710 maintainer -
maybe you can ask him for it? I don't have access to it at the moment.
It's only about 20 lines of code.
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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