RE: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controler...

[Waibel Niki <niki waibel setila ch>]

i have exactly the same problem!

rpd told me:
"think you may be in trouble there, as far as I know only the SRM for the
later series of machines supports adaptec controllers. You can try getting
the latest for that box, should be in:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/
or you'll have to boot from the floppy/CDROM/symbios card."

so i did - but i got on trouble with the fw upgrade!
it seems to be easy out of
AlphaBIOS
or
ARC
console. this is described well in the docs.

BUT HOW CAN I BUILD A FW UPGRADE DISK IN REDHAT LINUX FOR THE SRM
CONSOLE!!!???
it is just described (and there are utilities for that) how to do it in
NT, OpenVMS and DigitalUNIX.
it is not explained for linux.

i think that it must be a simple 'dd' command with the correct files.
BUT WHAT FILES???

the docu about SRM and Linux is a pain!
 - can anyone help?
 - has anyone done that before?

niki w. waibel


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Walker [mailto:timwalker@supernet.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 8:37 PM
>To: axp-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controler...
>
>
>I am having a problem installing Redhat 6.1 on an Alpha PC164 system
>with an Adaptec 2940uw SCSI controler. The SRM console will not detect
>the SCSI controler so it does not see the CD drive or the hard drive.
>Has anyone been successful with this or have some insight?  I'd like to
>use the SRM console to install off of floppy.  How do I do this? I read
>the SRM FAQ, but floppy instalation is rather cryptic.
>
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