Re: Installation Problems..please help..it's URGENT!

[Per Kristiansen <perk crb oslo no>]

At 18:49 26.11.97 -0600, you wrote:
>>wow!..speedy answer...
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>Ask and you shall receive...
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>>>Can you set the card to _not_ be Plug-'n-Play (if it is)?  
>>Nope
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>That sucks...
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>>>How about the second SCSI?
>>Even If I disable the second SCSI it will try to use the same IRQ as the NIC
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>D'Oh!
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>>>What do you have on IRQ 15?  Can you move the second SCSI there?
>>Nope, both SCSI "cards" (they are onboard) automatically assigns IRQ's
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>HP says there is _no_way_ to change the IRQs of the SCSI controllers?!?!?
>You have _got_ to be joking...

nope

>>nope..no Navigator Cd for this line..
>>The HP ppl have been very cooperative, but there seems to be very little
>>linux knowledge over there :)
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>Keep looking, there is _somewhere_.  ;^)
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>>So I'm beginning to wonder if it might be the SCSI adapters on the XU that
>>are causing the problems.
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>I can tell you what the problem is...
>You can't have two controllers on the same IRQ, that's what.
>Right now you have the second SCSI controller and the Net card both
>on IRQ 11.  Won't fly.  Not now, not ever.  Someone's got to move.
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>This would be a problem even under NT.  What does HP say again?
>Tell them you have a network card on IRQ 11 and the secondary SCSI
>controller is conflicting with it.  Ask them how you can change the SCSI
>controller's IRQ.  I'm sure it can be done.  No system designer would
>be _that_ stupid as to not let you change it at all.

well..this is the crux of the problem.. in windows 95 & NT it works Okay..
It's ONLY under Linux that I have this problem..arrrrgh!

>Again, keep us informed.
>
>        - Kevin Colby
>          kevin marcal com
>

Per Kristiansen
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