Re: [suse-axp] SuSE-AXP on a AS1000 4/266 with Mylex DAC960

From: Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 03:53:03 PST

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    Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:53:03 +0100 (MET)
From: Ruediger Oertel <ro@suse.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003091251250.11444-100000@fatou.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] SuSE-AXP on a AS1000 4/266 with Mylex DAC960

    On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Wolfgang Kutscherauer wrote:
    >
    > > In our department we hav two old Alpha-Server AS1000 4/266 with
    > > MIKASA-Boards, NCR 53810 SCSI and Mylex DAC960 Raid-Controller (PCI).
    > >
    > > I tried to install a SuSE 6.1 AXP on it. I was able to boot from
    > > Floppy, but i failed when i tried to load the kernelmodule for the
    > > Mylex DAC 960. Must i insert parameters für IRQ and/or I/O-Adress? I
    > > think there is no need for parameters for PCI-cards.
    > >
    > > Have anyone experiences in installing a AS1000 with Mylex DAC 960 Raid?
    >
    > Hmm, I am not sure about this, but did 6.1 already support the Mylex
    > Controller? You might want to use SuSE Linux 6.3 (AXP) instead.
    The module could not be loaded on alpha because of a kernel-problem on 6.1.
    Loading fails with "unresolved symbol ioremap_nocache" which was not
    defined in arch/alpha at that time. It should be fixed in 2.2.13 and
    chances are the driver works on 6.3. 

    -- 
with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
                              Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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