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Quote:>Hello,
>  I am having a hard time installing linux because I use a Diamond
>Fireport 40 SCSI controller.  Is there _anyone_ out there that has
>successfully installed and uses Linux with this controller?  Please help,
>thanks.

1. Grab RedHat boot and support disk images from
   ftp://linux.wauug.org/pub/roudier/redhatboot/4.2 and create the boot and
   support disks (see the RedHat documentation for details)
2. Boot the machine with the RedHat boot disk, answering all the questions.
   When asked about a SCSI controller, choose "NCR 53c810/820 (alternate)",
   and it should find the FirePort.
3. When you've finshed installing, reboot with the RedHat boot disk, and
   enter "rescue" at the prompt.  Answer the questions again.  This time,
   for the SCSI controller, choose "NCR 53c810/20/..../75".  Again, it
   should see the FirePort.  
4. When you get to a shell prompt, type
      installncr /dev/sda1
   where /dev/sda1 is replaced with whatever partition your root partition
   is. This is where I made my mistake - the readme file that comes with
   the boot disk uses /dev/sda1, and it didn't occur to me until about 1:30
   AM that, for my setup, the root partition is /dev/sda2...  Details,
   details :-)

After that, it's been working just fine.  Hope this helps.

-jason

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Quote:>  I am having a hard time installing linux because I use a Diamond
>Fireport 40 SCSI controller.  Is there _anyone_ out there that has
>successfully installed and uses Linux with this controller?  Please help,
>thanks.

Meaning that the standard RedHat 4.x kernels will not recognize it.

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Henrik Storner                               http://www.image.dk/~storner/
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I patched the RedHat kernel 2.0.30 with Gerard Roudiers
(1.12d-to-2.5d)-upgrade and compiled both,
kernel AND modules, giving the new ncr53c8xx.o
which I could succesfully load via insmod within both
the original AND the new kernel
and which shows up at least a controller as /proc/scsi/ncr53c8xx/0
I do not own devices yet for more.

What's the meaning of the posting reply of Henrik
that You need at least 2.0.31??
...puzzled...

Quote:

> This controller is based on the NCR53c875J chip. Support for it is included
> in the ncr53c8xx driver, although you will need kernel 2.0.31 or later
> (preferably, 2.0.32) for it to work.

> Meaning that the standard RedHat 4.x kernels will not recognize it.