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Author:  graysky [ Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:32 pm ]
Post subject:  SCSI CDROM supported (R5.5)?
I'm trying to guide someone via the telephone to install R5.5 to an older machine and I can't even get the menu (testcd, auto install, auto upgrade, etc.) to display. It bombs out right after the enabling DMA for hda message.

Code:
"Can't find knoppix, filesystem.  Dropping you to a very limited shell."


The person isn't computer savvy, but I know the hardware has an Adaptec AHA-2930CU PCI SCSI Controller and some generic SCSI CDROM.

Anyway, could this problem be related to that? Should I have him pull the SCSI card and buy an IDE CDROM?

Advice is appreciated.

Hardware details from Everest (I know it's slow, but it's only for watching avi files)
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440BX board (gateway, BIOS version 4W4SB0X0.15A.0012.P07)
PIII-500 w/ 512 meg of PC100
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 (16 meg)
WDC AC418000D (16 GB, IDE)
Adaptec AHA-2930CU PCI SCSI Controller
MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 SCSI CdRom Device (4x/8x CD-R)
Ensoniq Tabor2 Sound Card
Author:  jmckeown2 [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SCSI CDROM supported (R5.5)?
graysky wrote:
Should I have him pull the SCSI card and buy an IDE CDROM?

Are you kidding?! The SCSI card is the nicest piece of hardware in that box :lol:

Seriously, try burning another live distro, and booting that, RecsueCD, Knoppix or Ubuntu. If other distros fail to boot, then maybe BIOS settings? other than that any old vanilla CD-R will do, $15 in the close-out bin will probably do better than the 4-8X you have now...
Author:  graysky [ Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:57 pm ]
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True... but this machine is literally a dinosaur from 1998 I believe.

BTW, the problem WAS the SCSI card. After unplugging the SCSI CDROM, and replacing it with an older IDE CDROM, the thing worked flawlessly. Let me tell you guys, a P3-500 is SLOW :)

It takes 20 % of the CPU to play an xvid avi and 83 % for an x264 file, but it plays them just fine. Slow frontend for video files but a frontend nonetheless :)
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