Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux

[Hoover, Tony]

the Symbios/LSI 53C8xx chips can use either the NCR53C8XX driver or the
SYM53C8XX driver.  I believe that the NCR driver is less aggressive on
"command re-ordering" and buffer depth, but it might be worth a shot to try
the other driver.  I use these SCSI controllers in most of my alphas, and
they typically work quite well.
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Tony Hoover, Network Administrator 
KSU - Salina, College of Technology
(785) 826-2660

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> Subject: 	RE: Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux 
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> I've tried Symbios 53c875 , they can be seen by the SRM, but the linux
> driver seems to have problem getting it to work, it kept getting me
> timeout errors, as for Qlogic 1040, I only one of those, they work fine,
> but I found it impossible to buy additional cards for my machines :(
> 
> Tim.
> 
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Hoover, Tony wrote:
> 
> > You can boot from a small narrow SCSI drive, and have most of your
> directory
> > structure on your wide SCSI drives that are attached to the Adaptec
> > controller.  Or you could acquire a SCSI controller that is based on an
> > LSI/Symbios 53C875 or a Qlogic 1040.  Both of those wide SCSI
> controllers
> > should be supported in SRM.
> >
> > I've never played with netbooting, so I can't comment on that
> >
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> > Tony Hoover, Network Administrator
> > KSU - Salina, College of Technology
> > (785) 826-2660
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> > > Sent: 	Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:07 PM
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> > > Subject: 	Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've got several Alphaserver 2100 that needs to be retrofitted with
> newer
> > > scsi drives so I can put Linux on it as a cluster. The scsi card that
> came
> > > with the machine is too old and doesn't seems to support newer scsi
> > > drives, so I tried to add adaptec 2940U2W series cards into them.
> > > However, the SRM bios can't see them but once I boot into Linux using
> RH
> > > CD images, the drives are totally functional, which means I can't use
> them
> > > as  bootdisks, and since the original drives from digital are mostly
> > > failing,  I need to rely on netboot to serve the boot images, then I
> can
> > > access all the files on local disks.
> > >
> > > Can someone give me a few pointers on how to do it ?
> > > I've been googling for quite a few days and have yet to find anything
> > > helpful :(
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Tim.
> > >
> > >
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