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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