RE: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controller...

["Vanco, Donald" <VANCOD PIOS com>]

	Not that it's of any particular help, but when I was at Compaq
earlier this moth I was told that the RH 6.1 release for Alpha still had no
definite release date (as a retail product) due to continuing issues with
SCSI controllers.
	As of last week my contact at RH said there still was no firm
release date but could not confirm / deny what the holdup was.

Regards -
Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Waibel Niki [mailto:niki.waibel@setila.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 2:44 AM
> To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controler...
> 
> 
> 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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