Re: help: PS/2 hard drive not found

Dave Weis (djweis@plconline.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:24:24 -0600 (CST)


> I've compiled[0] kernel 2.2.0-pre8[1], with MCA support, with and without
> ESDI hard drive support, with and without "use old disk-only driver",
> and a few other changes. I've grafted this kernel onto a Debian rescue
> (installation) disk. I can boot the machine with this kernel, and it
> doesn't even complain.
> But it does not find the hard drive.

This is probably a SCSI machine.

> MCA home page, or two or three, but none of them are working for me
> today. I get name lookup errors, or nonresponsive servers, or invalid

Sorry, I graduated and since I wasn't there to defend the machine it was
shut off.

> I found something called QBMCA and ran that on one of the machines. It
> reports 8 MCA slots (which doesn't sound right -- this is an awfully
> small case), with a token ring card in slot 2. The Linux kernel sees

What are the other POS id's?

> I don't know what an ESDI is, or how to tell whether I've got one. I
> don't think this is a SCSI system, but again, I don't know how to tell --

You can use the ID's or once you get into the refdisk, poke around in the
set options section. There is one scsi controller labelled as "ibm mca
scsi controller" or similar which is what you want.

> I'm probably ignorant of something which is terribly obvious to those
> who actually understand these PS/2 boxes. Are there any MCA gurus here
> who recognize this type of problem?

Hopefully :-)

djweis

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David Weis
djweis@plconline.com

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