Re: [TCLUG:17899] IBM PS/2-50 Bus Error on install

[Steve Horejsi <shorejsi@skypoint.com>]

Callum Lerwick wrote:

> Actually, Linux's MCA support has been around a while. But how the heck
> it got into the 2.2 kernel, who wrote it, who knows about it, seems to
> be a mystery. ;) And most distributions aren't really set up and tested
> for MCA.
> 
> And the MCA Linux homepage has disappeared again.
> 

 Yeah, that page seems to flicker in and out of accessibility every now
and then. There's good info there when it's available. The URL I have
is:

http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/default.htm

 I expect it will be back again in a day or so...

> I tried to boot Slackware on a Model 80 back in the days of kernel 2.0.
> But the ESDI disk controller was giving me trouble.
> 

 I just installed Slackware 7 on a PS/2 Mod 80 (SCSI) the other day and
it went on like a dream . (OK, a slow-motion dream perhaps...) There
should be ESDI support for it as well; it improved over the last couple
of years to be pretty usable. 


 I'll take a look through the Slackware stuff to see if there's any
mention of ESDI support.




						-=[ Steve ]=-