16 Jan
2005
16 Jan
'05
8:18 p.m.
At 08:16 AM 1/16/05 -0500, you wrote:
I recently got an old IBM PS/2 8570 (as mentioned to
some earlier). Been
thinking about putting Linux on it as the original owner put some company
proprietary software on it for some unknown network monitoring via
proprietary hardware (that has since been removed before I came into
possession). The big thing is that it doesn't want to boot from SCSI. I
have 4 cards and the adf disks for them. 1 is an IBM (supposedly Corvette)
controller. 2 are Adaptec 1640's (different year manufacture and slightly
different layout/revision). The final one is a Storage Dimensions 3211B
(technically a compatible, yet rarer C/D). The other thing is that I've
been told it has some sort of special boot partition on the 60MB ESDI
drive. The SCSI drives I'm trying to use are all 1 and 2.2GB Seagates with
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What ID are the drives you are trying to boot from set to? I seem to
recall that some PS/2s want the HDD set to ID 6 before they will boot off
it. They could also be fussy about other settings depending on the drives.
I have used Seagate SCSI drives in PS/2s before, but they were <=500MB and
other than the ID 6 thing I can't remember the details.