[cobalt-developers] scsi card in cube 2 / and serial port help

[Frank Mattes <list_server2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Cobalt developers and cobalt experts,

I put a Adaptec scsi card 2940 in the 2nd pci slot of
my cube 2 (it is a gateway cube, which is identical to
a cobalt cube 2, with a 2nd PCI slot).

I'm wondering how I can find out if the card works
with my cube 2 ?.
Do I have to compile my own kernel ?

Can I use this card to connect a dat tape drive ?

The serial port output shows the following:
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Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you
surf it'
Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................16M
 6.Bank 1:.................................16M
 7.Bank 2:.................................16M
 8.Bank 3:.................................16M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**Unknown
Card**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Decompressing -\ done.
 
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Which brings me two my second problem.
After decompressing -\ done,

the cube boots further without problems, but the
serial console is dead.
I can't log in (only by telnet).

Does anyone know what is wrong. I thought you can use
the serial port to log in ?

I appreciate any thoughts or help

Frank Mattes
Department of Virology
Royal Free Hospital
London

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