Slackware SCSI bootdisks ------------------------ This directory contains a collection of batch files used to create Slackware bootdisks. To create a disk, just put a formatted floppy disk in your drive and choose one of the options listed below to make the disk. Read all of the choices carefully to pick the disk that best matches the hardware in your machine. NOTE: Using the VIEW program to create the Slackware bootdisks may not work under Windows. If you're running Windows95 or 98, you should restart your machine in MS-DOS mode before creating a bootdisk. NOTE: In addition to some sort of SCSI support, all of these disks contain support for IDE hard drives and CDROM drives. So, if you're running a mixed IDE/SCSI system, the kernels on these disks will be able to handle the situation just fine. Look for the disk below containing support for your SCSI controller card. Name Additional driver support ---- ------------------------- 7000fast.bat Western Digital 7000FASST SCSI support. acard.bat ACARD 870U/W SCSI host adapter support. advansys.bat This bootdisk supports all AdvanSys SCSI controllers, including some SCSI cards included with HP CD-R/RW drives, the Iomega Jaz Jet SCSI controller, and the SCSI controller on the Iomega Buz multimedia adapter. aha152x.bat Adaptec 152x SCSI support. This supports the AHA-1510, AHA-1520, AHA-1522, and AHA-2825 SCSI host adapters. aha1542.bat Adaptec 1542 SCSI support. aha1740.bat Adaptec 1740 SCSI support. aic7xxx.bat Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI support. These include the 274x EISA cards, 284x VLB cards, 294x PCI cards, 394x PCI cards, 3985 PCI card, and several versions of the Adaptec built-in SCSI controllers on various PC motherboards. am53c974.bat AM53/79C974 SCSI support. buslogic.bat This supports BusLogic MultiMaster and FlashPoint SCSI controllers. dtc3280.bat DTC (Data Technology Corp) 3180/3280 SCSI support. eata_dma.bat DPT EATA-DMA SCSI support. (Boards such as PM2011, PM2021, PM2041, PM3021, PM2012B, PM2022, PM2122, PM2322, PM2042, PM3122, PM3222, PM3332, PM2024, PM2124, PM2044, PM2144, PM3224, PM3334.) eata_isa.bat DPT EATA-ISA/EISA SCSI support. (Boards such as PM2011B/9X, PM2021A/9X, PM2012A, PM2012B, PM2022A/9X, PM2122A/9X, PM2322A/9X) eata_pio.bat DPT EATA-PIO SCSI support. (PM2001 and PM2012A) fdomain.bat This supports Future Domain's 16-bit SCSI host adapters (TMC-1660/1680, TMC-1650/1670, TMC-3260, TMC-1610M/MER/MEX) and other adapters based on the Future Domain chipsets (Quantum ISA-200S, ISA-250MG; Adaptec AHA-2920; and at least one IBM board). gdt.bat This is a bootdisk for all SCSI Disk Array Controllers (EISA/ISA/PCI) manufactured by ICP Vortex. ibmmca.bat This is a bootdisk based on a development kernel which supports MicroChannel Architecture, found in some IBM PS/2 machines and laptops. It is a bus system similar to PCI or ISA. Support for most MCA SCSI, Ethernet, and Token Ring adapters is included. in2000.bat Always IN2000 SCSI support. initio.bat Supports the Initio 91XXU(W) and Initio 91XXU(W) SCSI host adapters. iomega.bat IOMEGA parallel port SCSI support. This supports the parallel-port Zip drives as a Linux SCSI device. This disk supports the older PPA parallel Zip drives as well as the newer ZipPlus drives that use the IMM driver. megaraid.bat This bootdisk supports the AMI MegaRAID 428 and 438 (and maybe 466) SCSI host adapters. n53c4xx.bat NCR 53c406a and Symbios Logic sym53c416 SCSI support. n_5380.bat NCR 5380 and 53c400 SCSI support. This is the generic NCR family of SCSI controllers, not to be confused with the NCR 53c7 or 8xx controllers. An example of a controller that uses the NCR53c400 chip is the Trantor T130B. n_53c7xx.bat NCR 53c7xx, 53c8xx SCSI support. (Most NCR PCI SCSI controllers use this driver, or the driver below) n_53c8xx.bat This is the FreeBSD NCR driver adapted to Linux for the NCR53C8XX family of PCI-SCSI controllers. This driver supports parity checking, tagged command queuing, fast SCSI II transfer up to 10 MB/s with narrow SCSI devices and 20 MB/s with wide scsi devices. It also supports Ultra SCSI data transfers with NCR53C860 and NCR53C875 controllers. The following Symbios/NCR chipsets are supported by the driver in this bootdisk: 810 810A 815 825 825A 860 875 876 895 896 no_kbd.bat This version of scsi.s is a workaround for a problem: Some newer P2/Celeron systems have been known to reboot themselves as the kernel is starting up. This seems to happen as the keyboard LEDs are reset. The no_kbd.s does not reset the keyboard LEDs, and will boot correctly on most machines with this symptom. A BIOS upgrade from the motherboard manufacturer may fix the problem. no_pci.bat If you're having problems with a hang during PCI probing, try this SCSI-supporting bootdisk without PCI BIOS support. Some old PCI motherboards have BIOS bugs and may crash if "PCI bios support" is enabled, but they run fine without this option. In many cases the BIOS can be fixed with a flash update from the motherboard manufacturer's web site. old_cd.bat This disk is provided in the unlikely event that someone needs to install from an old CD-ROM drive on a proprietary (*not* SCSI or IDE/ATAPI) interface to a hard drive on a SCSI controller. This disk supports most Linux supported SCSI controllers, plus the CD-ROM drives supported by these bootdisks: aztech.i, cdu31a.i, cdu535.i, cm206.i, goldstar.i, isp16.i, mcd.i, mcdx.i, optics.i, sanyo.i, and sbpcd.i. pas16.bat Pro Audio Spectrum/Studio 16 SCSI support. pci2000.bat This bootdisk supports the PCI2000I, PCI2220i, and PSI240i EIDE interface cards. All of these act as SCSI host adapters. qlog_fas.bat ISA/VLB/PCMCIA Qlogic FastSCSI! support. (also supports the Control Concepts SCSI cards based on the Qlogic FASXXX chip) qlog_isp.bat Supports all Qlogic PCI SCSI controllers, except the PCI-basic, which is supported by the AMD SCSI driver found on the am53c974.s bootdisk. scsi.bat A generic SCSI bootdisk, with support for most SCSI controllers that work under Linux. (NOTE: This disk wastes a lot of memory, since it contains nearly *all* of the SCSI drivers. If you know which SCSI controller your system has, it's *far* better to use the disk designed especially for it. But, if you don't know, then this generic disk might just work for you.) scsinet.bat Supports most SCSI controllers, plus many of the most common ethernet cards. Use this for installing over a network to a SCSI drive. (Or you can also use the bootdisk for your SCSI controller plus the appropriate ethernet module. See the README files in the ../modules directory if you want to try this approach) NOTE: Don't be too surprised if scsinet.s causes your machine to hang. It's loaded with nearly every SCSI and network driver for Linux, and unless your hardware is well behaved, the probing process can freeze your machine. If that happens, don't panic, just use a disk with less drivers. If you're not installing over the network, the disk designed for your SCSI controller is the right choice. If you need network support, use the disk designed for your SCSI card, plus put 'insmod' and the required network modules on another floppy to load before running setup. The README files in the ../modules directory explain this process in detail. seagate.bat Seagate ST01/ST02, Future Domain TMC-885/950 SCSI support. sgivis.bat This bootdisk supports the SGI Visual Workstation models 320 and 540. The kernel also supports Adaptec aic7xxx SCSI cards, multiple CPUs, and the SGI DBE video frame buffer graphics console. smp.bat This disk is the same as the generic scsi.s bootdisk, but adds support for motherboards with multiple CPUs. (symmetric multiprocessing, or SMP) sym538xx.bat This bootdisk contains enhanced support for Symbios/NCR SCSI chipsets in the SYM53C8XX family. It drops support of some of the oldest chipsets in this family in order to use some new features, so older cards will need to use the n_53c7xx.s or n_53c8xx.s bootdisk images instead. The driver in this bootdisk supports the following Symbios/NCR chipsets: 810A 825A 860 875 876 895 896 tekram.bat This bootdisk supports the Tekram DC390(T) PCI SCSI Hostadapter with the Am53C974A chip, and perhaps other cards using the same chip. It does _not_ support the DC390W/U/F adaptor with the NCR/Symbios chips -- for those cards, use the n_53c8xx.s bootdisk. trantor.bat Trantor T128/T128F/T228 SCSI support. ultrastr.bat UltraStor 14F, 24F, and 34F SCSI support. ustor14f.bat UltraStor 14F and 34F SCSI support.