OT: Problem Installing SCO 5.0.6 on HP ML530

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
To: "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at eaglegl.com>
Cc: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Problem Installing SCO 5.0.6 on HP ML530


>
>
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to install SCO 5.0.6 on ML530 and keep running
>>> into same problem no matter what I try.
>>>
>>> PROBLEM:  No root disk found ....
>>>
>>> I have configured arrays and logical drives.  I boot of
>>> SCO CD and while sitting at Boot:, I can see that it
>>> finds 1 physical drive (says nothing about logical).
>>>
>>> As boot continues, I notice that it says that no HDs were
>>> found ... even when the array is there and the logical
>>> drive has been defined.  I have the EFS disks but I do not
>>> know how to tell boot to look for "boot time drivers" off
>>> the floppies I have.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thank you all in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jose Lerebours
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>>
>> I use this command to boot when my SCSI is AMIRD, in your case might be 
>> SYSlogic (?) :
>>
>> : defbootstr link=amird Sdsk=amird(0,2,0,0)
>>
>> and then it will ask you for the floppy (replace amird with whatever you 
>> have).
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>
> I forgot to mention that the (0,2,0,0) is when you SCSI controller has 2 
> channels, use (0,1,0,0) or (0,0,0,0) if it doesn't work one or the other.

Special note on that.
In the case of amird specifically, the latest version of amird driver (2.25 
or higher) has a new numbering scheme that uses a virtual channel number 
that is one higher than the highest real channel on the card. A 2-channel 
card would use a 2. (real channels are 0, & 1, so the virtual channel is 2)

Other drivers, including earlier versions of amird, don't do that and no 
matter how many channels the card has, the virtual drive (the array) looks 
like it's on 0,0,0,0 - adapter 0, channel/bus 0, id 0, lun 0.

Don't use any versions of amird later than 2.14 and earlier than 2.25. a 
couple version made it out into the world and they had bugs in the new 
virtual numbering hat will leave you pulling your hair out unless you know 
exactly whats going on and know what directions to ignore. :)
2.14 and before worked like other drivers (0,0,0,0). Obviously I suggest get 
whatevers the latest from the LSI web site. Actually I suggest check both 
the sco ftp site and lsi and use whichever has the higher version number 
and/or later date in it's readme (as opposed to filesystem datestamp).

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