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Unrecognized Adaptec SCSI Controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Fletcher)
Mon Jan 27 01:36:33 1997
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 22:33:51 -0800
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Ed Fletcher <efletch@ampsc.com>
I just got a new computer at work that I would really like to load
linux onto. However, I cannot find a boot disk that will recognize
the scsi controller.
The boot up sequence reports the scsi controller as:
Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra / Ultra W Bios v1.24
I checked the kernel source tree, and found this controller listed.
It seems to be the main chip in the AHA-294x series. In this case it
is built into the motherboard. I tried booting with the slackware 96
aha2x4x.s boot disk and with the generic scsi boot disk, but the kernel
did not recognize any scsi controller. I am told that it is a very new
chip and that NT3.51 does not recognize it "out of the box" either.
Does anyone have any info on this?
The machine is a dual processor 200MHz PPro with 128M of memory and a
four gig scsi disk. It had to be loaded with dos first and then
switched to NT. I have been left just over a gig of space on the hard
drive for linux but have been unable to make use of it.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
efletch@ampsc.com
"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." - Nietzshe
