It's been a few weeks since I was able to come back to this project and I've discovered that I was wrong about this workstation not booting Linux. It does!
The 620 has two SCSI controllers. One is part of the motherboard and the drives are attached to it. The other controller is a PCI card and does not (I believe) support Linux. That card can be removed from the system and the system will boot a Linux installation. There's probably a way to tell the BIOS which controller to boot first as well.
If I had put on my thinking cap when I first tried to install Slackware I should have realized what was happening. Since Slackware could see all three drives and partition and install to any one of them, the SCSI controller must obviously be supported. The fact that the BIOS couldn't find the OS after installation meant simply that it wasn't looking to the right controller. Elementary my dear Dr. Watson!
You'll still need to use a scsi kernel, of course -- adaptec.s in the case of Slackware and you may need to recompile the kernel to support SMP and RAM greater than 1 GIG.
Dennisk
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