Re: [LI] Detacting SCSI on Compaq Proliant 1200

[Sachin Garg <sachin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Rupesh Nadar wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On the above Server I am trying to install RedHat 6.0, the installation goes
> fine, but on booting the boot failed after printing LI on the console.
> 
> I had an older Slackware Boot Disk for the machine picked up from roudier's
> site which boots the machine fine & then I am able to use it.
> 
> I did the make zdisk of the kernel (2.2.5-15) & did does not work. It fails to
> detect the onboard SCSI controller, this controller is an NCR 53c875 based
> card, one of the old symbios based controllers.

I have a Proliant with NCR53c876 controller and we were successfully
able to install SuSE as well as RH6

I don't know how diffrent teh two controllers are, but we used the
module called something like BSD driver for this controller.

Hope this helps,

sachin

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