Re: RH 7.1 installation on PWS 500a

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:27:07PM +0000, Nelson Brito wrote:
> 
> What i found strange from Ted's mail was the cdrom
> controler! mine PWS600a have an ide cdrom and the
> device is called dqa0 in SRM while Ted's machine
> have cdrom in dka0 and the other disks in dkcXXX.
> Is this a trully scsi cdrom? or is the srm unable
> to set it properly?

Early versions of SRM console on MIATA handled IDE CDROMs via SCSI
emulation (the IDE driver supported the SCSI driver API, IIRC).

Later versions support it as "pure" IDE and call the interfaces pqa
and pqb, and IDE CDs typically show up as dqa0 or dqb0.

I looked on a box with V7.0, and it had the "pure" IDE treatment, so I
suggest that Ted update his console FW.

--Jay++

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