SCO IDE drivers 1

[dbachpb]

Where can i find the driver for the ide controller of a HP Vectra VL 5 series 5 for SCO open server 5.0.5

 

[Guest_imported]

You should not need a special driver for an IDE controller. However, you will want to check out

http://www.sco.com/support

for drivers which may be specific to HP.

Before checking, make sure your primary harddisk is jumbered as the master drive if there is a slave.

Good luck.

 

[dbachpb]

I know I need some kindof new drivers since the installation bombs with the error
Reading from Install Source: 10 KB/ramFS/extractProd/extractAll
terminated by signal 8
Press <Enter> to continue

I found some help on the signal 8 error on the sco site, and the corrective action is to relink at install using the driver disk from the supplier. (in the case documented on the sco web site, the PC is a compaq and in my case its HP).
I looked just about everywhere on the net for HP drivers for SCO and could not find anything (HP has the ide drivers for all other OS but for SCO).

So, does anyone know of a site with all the drivers for SCO
Open Server 5.0.5 ?

 

[jimbolya]

You may find this hard to believe, but I have gotten a simillar message while installing in an HP Netserver E-60. I had 32MB of memory. When I put a 64MB chip inside, the error disappeared. If you try this let me know what happens. [sig][/sig]

 

[edfair]

You might want to try restart when you reach the floppy boot. It appears to make a more thourough sacn of hardware for devices. Have no idea however if it looks for special IDE controllers. [sig]<p>Ed Fair<br><a href=mailto: efair@atlnet.com> efair@atlnet.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. <br>
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.<br>
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[glennl]

The Signal 8 comes from SCO complaining about the amount of RAM to use to install. The problem first occurred with a system having 16MB of RAM. SCO's solution to this is to increase the number of buffers by typing at the Boot prompt

nbuf=100

Or you could use more RAM as mentioned before