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Re: SCSI bootdisk or insmod???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Juan Andres Baranda)
Thu Aug 28 14:34:11 1997
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 13:06:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Juan Andres Baranda <andres@jueves.iwm.com.mx>
To: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>
cc: Scsi list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970828134627.0068c5cc@govonca2.gov.on.ca>
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, John Rumball wrote:
> At 11:55 AM 28/08/97 -0400, Juan Andres Baranda wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody!! I've been trying to install linux (RedHat 4.2) to a
> >new server, PC Pentium 133, 32M, SCSI Adaptec 2920 and 2G Quantum.
> >
> > The problem is linux can't detect the scsi card ( IO=0x6100 IRQ=9
> >on /proc/pci, also SCSI storage controller= Future Domain TMC-18C30 ) so
> >i've been using the fdomain module, and failed.
> >
> > The Questions are:
> >
> > 1) Can i make a bootdisk ( installation for redhat ) so that i can
> >modify the scsi.c or fdomain.c module to autodetect my card???
> >
> > 2) Instead, how can i pass the io and irq to the module with
> >insmod or when you specify the options in RH install??
> >
> > 3) Last one, will i be able to install RH to my server or shall i
> >quit???
> >
> > 4) Suggestions????
> >
> >
> > Thanx.
> >
> >
> > Juan Andres
>
> Juan Andres,
>
> I don't know if this is of any help to you, but I also *had* problems
> getting Linux (SlackWare 3.2 in my case) to recognize my 2920 scsi
> controller. I finally solved it by typing the following at the LILO boot
> prompt when booting from a boot disk:
>
> boot: ramdisk fdomain=0x6100,10,7
> (portbase,irq,scsi-id)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> John
>
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>
Thanx but RH 4.2 install bootdisk doesn't support ( as far as i
know ) module options from lilo..
Juan Andres
