RE: Installing Suse 8.1 on Alphaserver with DAC960

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I got it to work finally. I can now boot suse 8.1 from the mylex raid with
the 2.73 firmware. The driver included detects my dac960 during setup (load
scsi DAC960 in first setup screen). I had to assign a BSD disklabel to the
raidset with fdisk and reboot. Partitioning worked in the second run.

Booting from the DAC960 required a recompile of the kernel, but a mkinitrd
and some editing in /etc/aboot.conf will do the trick as well to load the
DAC960 driver during boot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Gramm [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: zaterdag 15 november 2003 0:49
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Installing Suse 8.1 on Alphaserver with DAC960

I asked the same question a few months ago and didn't get any
responses.  Though I never did get 8.1 to see the Mylex cards of my
Alpha Server 2100, I did discover that the DACi960 driver in the Alpha
distro doesn't work (at least not with my 2.73 firmware cards).  I also
found out that the driver which comes in RH 7.2 Alpha (which you can
download from
ftp://ftp2.compaq.com/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2-alpha/release-isos/ and which
sees the DACi960 during install)  contains different code then the SUSE
version.  From what I could tell, the RH Alpha driver uses a different
addressing scheme for its memory usage. 

If you are interested, I could send you a copy of the RH driver and you
could take a stab at it.

K


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 05:44, Erwin de Beer wrote:
> Has anyone been able to successfully install Suse 8.1 on a machine
> with a DAC960 scsi controller?
> 
> I'd like to know the steps to achieve this, so that the machine can
> boot from the DAC960 into Suse. Anyone got some tips for me?
> 
> I read about the partitioning problem (ran into it myself as well), is
> there a fix or workaround for this, applying to the DAC960?
> 
> Thanks for any information.
> 
> Erwin
> 

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