[oclug] scsi help - aha1540B

[bbarnett at l8r.net]

On 23-Jan-2001 bartom wrote:
> I have an Adaptec AHA1540B scsi card driving a scanner and jazz drive. I
> would like to use them with the installation of Mandrake 7.2 I am currently
> doing. However the install does not see the scsi card, it's not in the select
> list or in Mandrake's hardware list. Is there any hope that I can use this
> card?
> 
> regards
> 
> Barry
> 
>  


Your card is a miracle of invention compared to the one I was using ;)  I had
to boot up into winblows, get the irq/etc info, reboot and use a line such as :

aha152x=0x140,9,7,1,1,0

at the lilo prompt.  You can integrate this into lilo afterwords with :

append="aha152x=0x140,9,7,1,1,0"

in the lilo conf, and re-run lilo to make it stick.  Not the same card, but
probably the same thing will have to be done.  I also had to go into the bios,
and make sure that irq 9 was set aside for ISA only.

More info can be found in the Documentation dir of the kernel sources, and you
can also check out the actual driver in the kernel tree.  There is often very
helpful and informative info in the comments of the source code.




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