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EISA is dead.

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Eitan Adler 2012-12-10 15:31:10 +00:00
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="hpnetserver-scsi-failure">
<para>Why does &os; not detect my HP Netserver's SCSI
controller?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>This is basically a known problem. The EISA on-board
SCSI controller in the HP Netserver machines occupies EISA
slot number 11, so all the <quote>true</quote> EISA slots
are in front of it. Alas, the address space for EISA slots
&gt;= 10 collides with the address space assigned to PCI,
and &os;'s auto-configuration currently cannot handle this
situation very well.</para>
<para>So now, the best you can do is to pretend there is no
address range clash :), by bumping the kernel option
<literal>EISA_SLOTS</literal> to a value of 12. Configure
and compile a kernel, as described in the <ulink
url="&url.books.handbook;/kernelconfig.html">Handbook entry on configuring the kernel</ulink>.</para>
<para>Of course, this does present you with a chicken-and-egg
problem when installing on such a machine. In order to work
around this problem, a special hack is available inside
<emphasis>UserConfig</emphasis>. Do not use the
<quote>visual</quote> interface, but the plain command-line
interface there. Simply type the following command at the
prompt and install your system as usual:</para>
<programlisting>eisa 12
quit</programlisting>
<para>While it is recommended you compile and install a custom
kernel anyway.</para>
<para>Hopefully, future versions will have a proper fix for
this problem.</para>
<note>
<para>You cannot use a <literal>dangerously
dedicated</literal> disk with an HP Netserver. See <link
linkend="dedicate">this note</link> for more info.</para>
</note>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="ed1-timeout">
<para>I keep seeing messages like <errorname>ed1: