I have the same problem installing Debian, on a similar system as Steve.

Could not resolve the problem and am still waiting for "how tos". I am a 
newbie to this OS and would like to learn more.

Please tailor answers that a layperson can understand.

Thank you.

Allen

In a message dated 4/25/00 7:14:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:

<< Subj:     Re: problem with installation program
 Date:  4/25/00 7:14:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time
 From:  kmself@ix.netcom.com
 To:    debian-user@lists.debian.org
 
 I'd encourage both of you to check this out further and communicate any
 results to the installation/howto maintainers.  Questions with 
 NCR53c series SCSI CDROMs have been appearing with some frequency of
 late.  I don't have direct experience, but know that web/usenet searches
 are pretty thin on results.
 
 On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:01PM -0500, Geopoliticus wrote:
 > Steve,
 > 
 > I had a similar problem when trying to install the EXACT same CD from my 
 > book.  I do however have SCSI peripherals.  What I eventually ended up 
 > doing was downloading Debian off of the net and it is now running great!  
I 
 > know that is not what you are looking for.  Something I ran across however 
 > is a jumper on my CD ROM.  It is labeled "Block".  This jumper, if set, 
 > told the controller that it was dealing with a UNIX block device.  If your 
 > CD ROM has a jumper like this try setting it the opposite of what it is 
 > currently set at.  You may have some success.  Good luck.
 > 
 > Geo
 > 
 > At 09:42 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Steven Burns wrote:
 > >Dear Linux users:
 > >
 > >I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that
 > >accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly,
 > >
 > >Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.).  The problem I am currently having is
 > >that I cannot get the installation program to start.
 > >
 > >It would seem that the problem relates to the last message displayed:
 > >"NCR53c406a: no available ports found."  See below.
 > >
 > >So far, I've looked into the problem as follows.
 > >1.  I've looked at the Help items accessed by pressing F1 while the
 > >below Welcome screen is up, but none of these items seems relevant.
 > >2.  I've spent some time looking at the debian website (www.debian.org),
 > >
 > >but haven't found anything relevant there either.
 > >3.  I did internet searches with several search engines and the the
 > >search text, "NCR53c406a: no available ports found."  Snap.com returned
 > >some webpages relating to "boot arguments for scsi peripherals."  I
 > >looked at some of these, but didn't find any information applicable to
 > >my situation.  Furthermore, my computer does NOT contain any scsi
 > >components, so it seems strange that the problem should relate to scsi.
 > >
 > >I would very much appreciate any insights or suggestions that would help
 > >
 > >me clear this hurdle.
 > >
 > >Sincerely,
 > >
 > >Steven
 > >
 > >P.S. See details below.
 > >-------------------------------
 > >
 > >The sequence of events that lead to the failure of the installation
 > >program follows.  (The failure is repeatable on my system.)
 > >
 > >1.  Boot the computer from the debian CD.
 > >2.  The Welcome screen appears.
 > >                         Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1!
 > >                           ...
 > >
 > >                         This disk uses Linux 2.2.12 (from
 > >                             kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-1)
 > >
 > >                         Press <F1> for help, or <ENTER> to boot!
 > >                         boot:
 > >3.  Press Enter.
 > >4.  A series of messages scroll up the screen and then stop.  The
 > >following is the list of messages that remains on the screen.
 > >
 > >Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
 > >Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
 > >NET4: UNIX somain sockeds 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
 > >NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
 > >IP Protocol: ICMP, UDP, TCP
 > >Starting kswapd v 1.5
 > >Detected PS/2 Mouse port.
 > >RAM Disk Driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1096 K size
 > >loop: registered device at major 7
 > >PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022,
 > >DID=7409
 > >PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
 > >     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0x007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio
 > >     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdb: pio
 > >hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA Disk drive
 > >hdc: ATAPI 48x CDROM, ATAPI CDROM Drive
 > >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
 > >ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
 > >hda: Maxtor 91531U3, 14655MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63
 > >hdc: ATAPI 48x CD ROM Drive, 128 kB Cache
 > >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
 > >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
 > >FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
 > >md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
 > >NCR53c406a: no available ports found
 > >--------------------------------------------
 > >
 > >The computer I'm using has the following components.
 > >
 > >CPU:  AMD Athlon 600 MHz CPU
 > >
 > >MOTHERBOARD:  Micro-Star AMD Athlon K7-PRO Motherboard w/ UDMA
 > >
 > >FLOPPY:  Mitsumi 1.44 MB Floppy Drive
 > >CD:  48x EIDE CD-ROM
 > >HARD DRIVE:  Maxtor 15.3 GB 5400 UDMA Hard Drive  (Windows 98 is
 > >installed on a 7326MB partition.  The rest of the disk (7327MB) is free
 > >space.)
 > >
 > >MEMORY:  128 MB SDRAM PC100
 > >MODEM: 3-COM US Robotics 56k V.90 Fax Modem w/ voice speaker phone
 > >
 > >NETWORK CARD:  PCI 32 bit 10/100 Network Card
 > >SOUND CARD:  Creative Lab Sound Blaster PCI 128 Vibra Sound
 > >VIDEO CARD:  Matrox G400 32MB SGRAM AGP
 > >
 > >MONITOR:  Sceptre Dragon Eye .27
 > >KEYBOARD:  PS2 108 key Windows 98 Keyboard
 > >MOUSE: PS2 Mouse
 > >SPEAKERS:  120 Watt Stereo Speakers
 > >----------------------------------------------
 > >
 > >End.
 > >
 > >
 > >
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