I have an old Compaq server (P90) on which I finally got RH6.2 installed.
There are few issues though that I ran to, and they all are SCSI related:
The machine has an old onboard SCSI-controller and a SCSI disk that Linux
recognizes as ncr53c810 and sda. Uses driver ncr53c8xx.
To this configuration I added a new Tekram controller DC390-U2W and a new U2W
9MB IBM disk. From Tekram's home page I read that I should use the ncr53c8xx
driver for this controller too.
Now the issues:
1) I installed RH6.2 server a few times on sda. I tried installing LILO both
to MBR and to the first partition of the sda. It doesn't work: on boot up just
a blank screen, no LILO prompt. Booting from floppy works. Why is this? What
am I doing wrong? This machine used to have Win95 and it booted from the hd
fine.
2) The ncr53c8xx recognizes my Tekram controller as ncr53c895 Fast-20 Wide
SCSI 40MB/s. My controller can do 80MB/s ULTRA2WIDE which is in use and
reported by the BIOS when booting. How can I enable this? Will updating to a
newer kernel with a newer ncr-module help?
Regards,
Peter
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