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Re: Adaptec 1505 Detection Problem:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Wreski)
Thu Aug 14 08:32:55 1997

Date: 	Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:25:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
To: Vivek <vivek@imaginet.co.uk>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970814115256.154F-100000@malkav.imaginet.co.uk>


> Hi - we've recently acquired a Linux box with a scsi card (an Adaptec
> 1505) in it here at work, and we've been having a few problems getting it
> to work:

What problems are you having?  Is it compiled as a module?  

> We've tried booting both with and without Autoconf override, 

autoconf won't work as the card does not have a BIOS to autoconf.

> The override commands we tried were: 
> 
> aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
> and
> aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1

Don't provide more options than you have to:

# modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,11

should work just fine..

> The DOS software that came with the card detects the card correctly as an
> Adaptec 1505, and detects the SCSI Jaz drive conected to it as well, so
> it doesn't look like a cabling problem. 

That doesn't mean there isn't a cabling problem.  Are you sure
termination is set correctly?  Do you have any internal devices?

Dave



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