Old computer from Slackware presentation, Part 3

[David Huerta]

Its actually connected to the board's controller, and the scsi
connection on the video card isn't being used.  Even so, I can get it to
detect the hard drive, but not the cd-rom.  I have tried attaching an
IDE cdrom to the ide connector on the board, but anything I put on that
doesn't get detected.  In any case, I'm gonna try to get it to read a
cd-rom from an IDE controller card.  If this doesn't work, I'm thinking
about installing linux on another machine and swapping out the hard
drive from it to the old Slackware box.

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:57, technomage wrote:
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> thats the one with the SCSI device ON the display adaptor, right?
> 
> I've found those don't work the way they are supposed to.
> best to replace with a matrox mellenium display unit and find a seperate scsi 
> adaptor (that card is too psycho to even allow windows to work on it).
> I'm not sure I have any scsi adaptors laying around over here, but I have a 
> spare matrox or 2.
> 
> let me know (I left my phone number a few e-mails back. let me know if you 
> want it again and I'll send privately).
> 
> Mage
> 
> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:59 am, David Huerta wrote:
> > Nah, I'm not using the display device, just hookup on the board with an
> > adapter for scsi wide on the drive.  I don't plan on installing a GUI on
> > this machine, which will simply be a file server, but I'd appreciate any
> > pointers on getting a cd-rom to work on this thing.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> > technomage
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:06 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Old computer from Slackware presentation, Part 3
> >
> > David,
> > I was the one that brought that machine in. are you using the scsi
> > attachment
> > on the display device?
> > if so, that won't work in linux (I think its windows centric).. also,
> > the
> > display device for that machine doesn't like GUI for some reason (never
> > did
> > figure out why). I have an extra display laying here (matrox mellenium)
> > if
> > you want it).
> >
> > give me a call at 623-849-9515 when you get a chance.
> >
> > Mage
> >
> > On Friday 23 May 2003 01:25 pm, David Huerta wrote:
> > > Not sure if anyone remembers the old Compaq my friend won from an East
> > > Side meeting last month, but we've basically exhausted most
> >
> > traditional
> >
> > > means of installing Linux on it, and have come up with an alternative:
> > >
> > > The computer has two scsi drives and now a scsi cd-rom, which
> >
> > Slackware
> >
> > > still can't detect.  However, it can detect an IDE hard drive on the
> >
> > IDE
> >
> > > port it has, maybe.  I plan on installing the OS on another computer
> >
> > on
> >
> > > an IDE hard drive and then sticking it back into my friend's comp,
> >
> > then
> >
> > > dding the whole OS into its larger SCSI hard disk.
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > I can find a larger IDE hard drive, stick it in my computer, dd the
> >
> > iso
> >
> > > image onto the hard drive, stick it back into my friend's comp, boot
> > > with a floppy, and select that IDE hard drive as the source of the
> > > packages.
> > >
> > > note that I have little experience with SCSI and will prolly ask more
> > > questions when I decide to set up a RAID array.
> > >
> > > - David Huerta
> > >
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