[huskerlug] Re: SCSI on a 486?

The Vesa card is an Adaptec AHA-2842VL, with floppy
and SCSI connectors.  I am wondering about the RAM on
the mainboard.  It has 4 of the 72 pin slots.  When I
put in 8MB DIMMs, it adds them, except for the last
slot, which seems to be limited to 4MB of address...
So,
no matter the size of the ram Dimms, I get 28MB
instead of the 32 mb, when I install four 8mb sticks!

Soyo /Sis board, w/ four ISA, and Four PCI slots...

So, I put three 8 Mb sticks, for 24 Mb... I guess that
will do for a 486DX-66.  The SCSI drive I will start
with is a 1995 IBM 1Gb drive... and, if successful,
maybe another drive will follow.  Have some Micropolis
1Gb drives handy...

Might try morphix or knoppix, from an ISA CD?

--- Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What SCSI card are you using?  Some SCSI cards have
> sufficiently good
> I/O that you can boot of them, other cards, no dice.
>  I had a real nice
> scsi card from my IBM Valuepoint.  The card was a
> VESA card and I could
> boot from it.
> 
> You should be able to boot from floppy just enough
> to get the scsi card
> going and the boot from CD.  Something like a "SCSI"
> boot image in the
> image directory would have scsi drivers and a
> bootable kernel.
> 
> As it is, I haven't tried to install linux on "old
> iron" since it was
> "new iron".  My IBM 486/66 loved Linux (RH 4.2) w/
> dialup.  Nifty.
> 
> I've been tempted to fire up Old linux on New iron
> (rather than new
> linux on old iron).  I can't image how quick an old
> 1.7 kernel running
> FWWM on an AMD 2200+ would be.  But of course
> finding drivers would be a
> pain...
> 
> Carl


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