SCO openserver 6.0 on IBM eserver X-226 1

[eyedoc1975]

Please Help;
I am trying to load SCO open server 6.0 Enterprise
edition on and IBM e-server X-226 with a SCSI raid controller 6i configured for raid 5. Openserver does not
see this Raid controller and will bot load on to harddrive.
Driver is loaded from IBM CD and configured properly.
Hardware Specs; Xeon single CPU 3.0 MHz, 2.0 Gig L2 cache, 2.0 Gig PC2700 ECC RAM, 36 gig 15000K 320 SCSI hot
swap drives X 3 for raid with a same fourth drive for spare. This server is on the certified hardware list onSCO
site.
Any suggestion or help will be greatly appreciated.
With many thanks in advance.

 

[stanhubble]

hmmm... does IBM have a BTLD disk for SCO Openserver 6.... why does this seem unlikely to me.....


"Driver is loaded from IBM CD and configured properly."
is this actually a BTLD (boot time loadable driver) for openserver?

 

[motoslide]

I ran into a similar issue one of the first times I installed SCO6. In my case, the issue was resolved by telling the BIOS to disable PlugAndPlay.
Do you know if that RAID controller is proprietary to IBM? Have you already configured the RAID partition using firmware or CD-based tools?
Not that this matters to your current problem, but I've found you will get substantially better performance if you go with RAID-1 instead of RAID-5.

 

[stankow]

I have same problem. HBA driver is from CD, comming with server, but SCO OS 6.0 reject it with "Error when mounting HBA media". Same FD works very fine with 5.0.7. Everything runs, including RAID-5. Suppose there is difference in HBA format for 6.0.

Stankow,

http://www.noac.biz

 

[stankow]

there is a mess of links from one site to another and from readme.txt files to some useless pdf files. To load OpenServer you have to use UnixWare drivers but no one knows tells how to enter boot: line options. Reading floppy disk with drivers SCO OS 6.0 reports that "reading drivers" but on the end do not report what kind of driver it load, is it succesfull or not. Even worst amateur programs are better, than load module of SCO OS 6.0. And much better provided with drivers.

They want each other compromise - IBM and SCO. Victums are end users.

Stankow,

http://www.noac.biz