RE: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controller...

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Foley [mailto:Mike.Foley@alpha-processor.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 9:24 AM
> To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controller...
> 
> 	There's Adaptec support in SRM so you can see the SCSI
> 	devices when you do a SHOW DEVICE. This support is
> 	starting to show up or about to show up in various
> 	flavours of SRM.
	Ooops - my bad....


> 	RH 6.1 for Alpha is out. You can download the ISO image
> 	and burn a CD of it. It works well.
	As I said  - there's no RETAIL (i.e. SUPPORTED) release of Red Hat
6.1.....  A real bite in the can as we (a RH reseller) cannot ship 6.1
without it!

Don



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanco, Donald [mailto:VANCOD@PIOS.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 9:16 AM
> To: 'axp-list@redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: Installation with Adaptec SCSI controller...
> 
> 
> 	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.
> > >
> > >-- 
> > >Tim Walker
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