Dell workstation 610 with dual Xeon

[Vincent Lozano]

Bonjour à tous,

Does anybody have a succesfully experience in installing a linux
distribution on a "Dell precision workstation 610 with dual Xeon".

I see in the specifications that there are _two_ onboard scsi
controllers (1 ultra2/wide and 1 ultra/wide). Are both of those
controllers recognized by the kernel ?

Thanks for any informations.

--
Vincent

[Larry Ozarow]

I've installed Redhat 5.1 on a similar Dell 410 with dual pentium IIs.
I've got a cdrom drive and zip on the ultra/wide and two Quantum
harddrives on the ultra2.

I used a boot-disk from what was the dialnet site and is now
ftp.redhat.com/pub/aic/boot_disks/5.1.0-final/RedHat/5.1/images/
after disabling the ROM bios on the ultra/wide contoller during bootup
(this prevented Redhat from repeatedly offering to install itself on my
zip drive). I then compiled an SMP kernel and it works awesome-wicked.
The cheesy floppy drive Dell provided crapped out during all this.

Larry Ozarow

[Matthew Wheaton]

Larry Ozarow wrote:

Yes,

I have installed a 610 (but with only a single processor) That shouldn't
matter though,
your problem is going to be having the correct driver for the adaptec SCSI
controllers.
Doug Ledford has done an excellent job of updating the aic7xxx driver and
you can obtain them
from

ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/aic

Download the boot diskette images, copy them to floppy using either
rawrite or dd
and you'll be able to boot into the install kernel, detect the SCSI disks,
and proceed with the
install. You'll then need to rebuild the kernel, applying the patch to
the aic7xxx driver.

Larry was right about the zip drive. In general, you may have to
disconnect any non-essential
SCSI device if it interferes with the install.

Good luck,

Matthew