In article <1992Aug12.201620.16694@newshost.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
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>In article <1992Aug12.192445.20894@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> chapin@cbnewsc.cb.att.com ( Tom Chapin ) writes:
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>>Do any of these abounding clones speak EISA yet?  Will they?
>>
>
>Well, all I know is that Linux didn't like my 486/33 EISA system with
>DTC 3290HD SCSI controller, which is supposed to be Adaptec 1542
>compatible.  It seemed to detect the controller and read the partition
>table properly when the bootimage was coming up, but then efdisk
>failed with an error when it tried to open /dev/hda.  I don't know if
>this is a general problem with EISA or just my controller.
>
Neither.  The first SCSI disk is accessed as /dev/sda (major number 8, minor
number 0), the second is /dev/sdb, etc.; /dev/hda refers to the first drive
on an AT-style interface (MFM, RLL, IDE).  If /dev/sda doesn't exist on the
root disk (I haven't seen a root disk since 0.95 ;-) ), make it with mknod.
"mknod /dev/sda b 8 0" should do it. Incidentally, if you got that far I
would guess that linux DOES run on *your* EISA machine.
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>Paul
>
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