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From - Sat Mar 20 12:58:16 1999 Xref: world comp.unix.sco.misc:92258 Path: world!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!198.138.0.5!newshub.northeast.verio.net!news-peer.gip.net!news-raspail.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newsfeed.ecrc.net!newsfeed.nettuno.it!drake.strhold.it!not-for-mail From: Roberto Zini <freddy@strhold.it> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc Subject: SCO OS 5.0.5 on IBM Thinkpad 380 [Succesfull] Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:12:41 +0100 Organization: Strhold Sistemi Edp Lines: 57 Message-ID: <36F25B59.38DD5FF3@strhold.it> Reply-To: freddy@strhold.it NNTP-Posting-Host: fred.strhold.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; SCO_SV 3.2 i386) X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 Howdy ! This is the second IBM model we had the pleasure to test (the first one was the 600). Since I know that dejanews is widely used to gather tech info about SCO problems, I decided to post the following issue, for those interested.
A customer our ours was unable to install SCO OS 5.0.5 on the above beast; we received the machine and we noticed that during the installation from the floppy (this machine is unable to boot SCO OS5 from the CD-ROM), the hwconfig screen did not show the EIDE/ATAPI adapter (ie, it didn't show the %adapter 0x1F0-0x1F7 14 - ... line). After hitting [ENTER] to continue, the installation froze while reading the floppy (after reading 1032k of data). We tried a wide number of boostring parameters, but unsuccesfully. We were able to solve it by acting as follows; just a few seconds before the "hwconfig" screen was depicted (while a bunch of dots were shown on the screen), we inserted the OS CD in the driver, we did close the slot and we let it spin during the hardware recognition. Thus making, the system was able to recognize the adapter and the installation device (EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM, Primary/Slave) and was able to complete the installation succesfully. We were able to replicate it; in fact, if the CD reader was empty during the installation phase, the system was unable to detect it. If the CD-ROM was inserted but "inactive" (ie, not spinning), the same; we were able to complete the installation only by letting the CD spin during the HW recognition screen. The strange think was that, once installed and rebooted, the system was able to correctly see the CD even if the slot was empty (ie, no CD in drive). Only the installation procedure failed to recognize it. We did tried with the notebook image and also by using the new wd adapter in the new 5.0.5 BTLD disk. Since we succeed in the installation, the customer is now happy but I'm still puzzled ;->
Anyone ?
Thanks,
Roberto
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