[2140] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Problems installing scsi tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Beach)
Fri Jul 11 04:43:18 1997
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:33:00 +1000
From: Michael Beach <mbeach@plessey.com.au>
To: Nuno Miguel Pinto de Sousa Monteiro <nmonteir@fc.up.pt>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Nuno Miguel Pinto de Sousa Monteiro wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I have recently purchased a computer that comes with a Colorado T4000s
> tape attached to a Colorado SC-50Q scsi adapter. This claimes to be a PnP
> device and it is detected under DOS. However, when booting with LINUX, the
> following message appears:
> -SCSI:0 hosts
> -SCSI: detected total
> I tried to upgrade the Kernel to a 2.0.30 version, compilled with SCSI
> support for tapes and with QLogicisp module (I have a PCI board) and I got
> the same results.
> How can I make it work?
>
I assume that the Colorado SCSI adapter is an ISA card, ie ISA PnP? If
so, your system will not be able to automatically detect it. There are
various web pages devoted to PnP support for Linux (you should be able
to find links to them from the LDP and Red Hat sites at least), but
probably the best (least fuss) option at the moment is to use the
isapnptools package, which is available from sunsite.
These tools can be used to "wake up" and configure PnP devices. One
point to note though is that because the configure of the PnP devices
necessarily happens after the kernel boots, any drivers to be used with
the devices should be loaded as modules after the PnP config is done.
Otherwise they are initialised at kernel boot when all the PnP stuff is
asleep, and so will find no devices.
> Thanks in advance,
> Nuno Monteiro
Regards
M.Beach
