Silicon Image ATA/133 Controller

[trolley]

I am building a second Unix File Server using 5.0.6 on a Pentium 2 box. Has anyone install SCO 5.0.6 using a Silicon Image ATA/133 Controller? When I boot the system, it appears to see the hard drives, but after determing where the CD drive is, it fails to see a boot device.

Any help would very much be appreciated.

 

[motoslide]

I don't see any mention of support for SCO OpenServer on SI's "Knowledge Base" nor Downloads sites. It looks like they support Microsoft, Linux, and Novell.
I suspect you will need to switch to an alternate HD controller. Unless there is some way to change the SI controller to "generic IDE" mode. That's just an idea, not a recommendation.



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[trolley]

I looked on the web myself late last night and did not see anything either.

I may have an alternative, but will require a rebuild of a Windows Desktop. Not looking forward to that idea. I will wait until next week and see if anyone else has any thoughts.

Thanks.....

 

[stanhubble]

look for the latest WD (western digital) btld for 5.0.6

...
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/openserver5/drivers/OSR506/btld/wd/

this supports:
* All compliant PCI IDE controllers now recognized.

* UDMA mode 6 (UDMA 133) now supported.

* Improved ATAPI device recognition.

* ATAPI CD and DVD writer devices now supported.

* More readable and useful debug output. To turn on debug output, use
the wd.debug=[option] bootstring, where [option] can be any of the
following:

i for IDE controller identification
u for Ultra DMA configuration
g for disk geometry calculations

* Better disk geometry configuration.

* IDE hard disks larger than 137GB now recognized as having 137GB of
space. Previously these drives were seen as smaller, possibly as
small as 2GB.

* When kernel debugger is enabled, driver no longer enters the debugger
on certain unusual conditions.

* Driver no longer panics when attempting to access a non-existent ATAPI
device.

 

[trolley]

Thank you for the information. I will look into trying it this weekend.