[geeks] Cool rescue

[Eric Dittman]

> The biggest problem I'm having with the system right now is that for some
> reason I cant get any Linux distro to install on it because the DAC960
> drivers fail to load. I've tried redhat, mandrake, gentoo, and caldera with
> no luck. They all fail whenever they try to init the DAC 960 drivers with a
> failure to load module message. I've updated the firmware on the board
> itself, the cache battery is good, and I've gone through the configs and
> container creation and all is well. NT installs on the thing just fine so I
> know its functioning. Next I'm going to try Suse and Debian. If those don't
> work then I'm going to try a BSD distro. After that, who knows. I'm
> definitely not going to use NT on it if I don't have to.

The drivers require a certain rev. of firmware.
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Eric Dittman
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