Subject: Re: failure notice (Forward)
To: Mr S.K. Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 11/17/1997 21:26:17
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Mr S.K. Stevens wrote:

> At Sat, 15 Nov 1997 22:52:48 GMT, leedham john r wrote:
> >Dear All,
> > 
> >Due to other hardware conflicts (my 4x4 CD-ROM Drive didn't like my morley 
> >ROM), I have had to upgrade my Morley SCSI Card with PowerROM.
> 
> At present no SCSI cards with PowerROMs are supported. You'll either need to 
> remove the powertec driver from the kernel or remove the card from the 
> machine, I believe Mark added a boot option to disable a particular podule, in 
> the extra options try:
> 
> podule0.disable
> 
> This could be wrong (from memory).

This is the correct syntax, though it is only supported in more recent
kernels. with this option the kernel will report the card but will not
attempt to attach a driver.

As soon as we have a way of recognised what the real hardware is we will
be able to attach drivers.

Cheers,
				mark