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Old 07-27-2007
configure Adaptec 29320ALP Ultra 320 SCSI Card in IBM X3400

I am installing SCO UNIX 5.0.6 in X3400, every thing are install except Adaptec 29320ALP Card (Attached DAT Drive) because their driver are available in btld formate Fllopy DISk and SCO Unix 5.0.6 not support USB Floppy, Can anybody inform us any other method to installed the Adaptec Ultra 120 Driver, or any idea how to download driver from USB Floppy.

Server have their own Raid controller so Unix already installed and we Adaptec controller for Tape Drive
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Old 07-27-2007
According to Adaptec's web site this controller is supported on 5.0.7 only.
However, if you have access to another system running SCO, you could copy the diskette to disk, ftp to the new machine, and use the 'marry' command to mount the diskette image and then run pkgadd to install the driver.
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Old 07-28-2007
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Originally Posted by jgt
According to Adaptec's web site this controller is supported on 5.0.7 only.
However, if you have access to another system running SCO, you could copy the diskette to disk, ftp to the new machine, and use the 'marry' command to mount the diskette image and then run pkgadd to install the driver.
Thanks for your information but as I am dummy in unix so can you please help us to inform the detail command line of using the above command


Thanks
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Old 07-28-2007
May be you should consider installing 5.0.7
See:Can I install OpenServer 5.0.4 5.0.5 or 5.0.6 on a Pentium 4 based machine?
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