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> I was given an old Compaq Prosignia 486DX2/66 PC server that my IT
> department recently de-commisioned and I really want to run Linux on it,
> the trouble is that Linux will not recognise the SCSI adapter on the
> motherboard, it is an NCR 53c710 chip, it works fine under DOS and Win95
> and Novell 4.11.

> Windoze95 reports the following setup in the Device Manager:

> + SCSI Controllers
>  + Compaq integrated 32-bit Fast-SCSI-2 controller

> Resources:

> Input/Output range:             8000-801F
> Interrupt:                      15

> I really want to put RedHat Linux 5.1 on this machine but I've just about
> tried everything.

> Someone please help!

> Thanks in advance
> Merry Christmas

> Steven Freegard

> Hi all,

> I was given an old Compaq Prosignia 486DX2/66 PC server that my IT
> department recently de-commisioned and I really want to run Linux on it,
> the trouble is that Linux will not recognise the SCSI adapter on the
> motherboard, it is an NCR 53c710 chip, it works fine under DOS and Win95
> and Novell 4.11.

> Windoze95 reports the following setup in the Device Manager:

> + SCSI Controllers
>  + Compaq integrated 32-bit Fast-SCSI-2 controller

> Resources:

> Input/Output range:             8000-801F
> Interrupt:                      15

> I really want to put RedHat Linux 5.1 on this machine but I've just about
> tried everything.

> Someone please help!

> Thanks in advance
> Merry Christmas

> Steven Freegard

> Hi all,

> I was given an old Compaq Prosignia 486DX2/66 PC server that my IT
> department recently de-commisioned and I really want to run Linux on it,
> the trouble is that Linux will not recognise the SCSI adapter on the
> motherboard, it is an NCR 53c710 chip, it works fine under DOS and Win95
> and Novell 4.11.

> Windoze95 reports the following setup in the Device Manager:

> + SCSI Controllers
>  + Compaq integrated 32-bit Fast-SCSI-2 controller

> Resources:

> Input/Output range:             8000-801F
> Interrupt:                      15

> I really want to put RedHat Linux 5.1 on this machine but I've just about
> tried everything.

> Someone please help!

> Thanks in advance
> Merry Christmas

> Steven Freegard

>I was given an old Compaq Prosignia 486DX2/66 PC server that my IT
>department recently de-commisioned and I really want to run Linux on it,
>the trouble is that Linux will not recognise the SCSI adapter on the
>motherboard, it is an NCR 53c710 chip, it works fine under DOS and Win95
>and Novell 4.11.

>Windoze95 reports the following setup in the Device Manager:

>+ SCSI Controllers
> + Compaq integrated 32-bit Fast-SCSI-2 controller

>Resources:

>Input/Output range:         8000-801F
>Interrupt:                  15

>I really want to put RedHat Linux 5.1 on this machine but I've just about
>tried everything.

>Someone please help!

>Thanks in advance
>Merry Christmas

>Steven Freegard

> Steven,

> The problem is that the current NCR SCSI driver does NOT support EISA
> which is needed for that controller. The embedded NIC should work fine
> with the pcnet32 driver.

> Maybe someone would be willing to update the NCR SCSI driver with
> EISA support!!!

> Short of that, you will probably have to get ahold of an ISA Adaptec
> controller that's supported.