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Re: PCI/SCSI AHA-2920 problems installing SW 3.2 - HELP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Rumball)
Thu Aug 21 11:05:13 1997
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:43:42 -0400
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>
Cc: jer@isys.ca, als@di.uminho.pt
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970820111559.00691ce0@govonca2.gov.on.ca>
Hello again,
At 11:15 AM 20/08/97 -0400, I wrote:
>
> OK, this morning I tried the ramdisk command at the boot prompt four
>different times, one for each of the acceptable port-base values (as listed
>in SCSI-HOWTO for fdomain.s) 0x140, 0x150, 0x160, 0x170. In each case I
>used IRQ 10 and SCSI ID 7. Each time the result was negative! :-(
>
> So then I started thinking that perhaps the card is NOT at any of these
>port-base addresses. I fired up Windows95 on the same machine (and hard
>drive) and went to the Device Manager where it reported the AHA-2920 SCSI
>controller at port-base I/O 6100h-610Fh, IRQ 10 (along with "IRQ Holder for
>PCI Steering" whatever that is, also at IRQ 10) and MEM
>000C8000h-000CBFFFh. This was indeed revealing, and probably explains why
>Linux could not find it! Unfortunately, I ran out of time this morning to
>try these new values at the boot prompt.
>
This morning I was finally successful at getting Linux to recognize my
2920 by using the following boot prompt command:
boot: ramdisk fdomain=0x6100,10,7
With this, it identified my internal Seagate SCSI HD, and my external
CD-ROM drive and Zip drive. The only problem is that is assigns /dev/sda
to my external ZIP drive and then complains that it cannot read the
partition table (ie. there was no ZIP disk in the drive!) when I run fdisk.
My question now is, how do I get Linux to assign /dev/sda to the internal
HD instead of to the external ZIP? Or do I even need to wory about this?
I want to be able to boot Linux off my HD, not my ZIP.
Thanks for in advance for your help.
Regards,
John
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