[2598] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: fdomain and aha152x problems adding ZIP drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Tue Oct 7 03:49:35 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:44:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>
cc: Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971006105458.0069acfc@govonca2.gov.on.ca>
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, John Rumball wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I have Linux 2.0.29 (SlackWare) installed and running on my system which
> consists of an AHA-2920 controller and a SCSI Seagate hard drive as my boot
> disk (/dev/sda).
>
> 1) Am I allowed to have two "append" statements in lilo.conf?
Try to put your two parameters into one append string, like
append = "fdomain=0x6100,10,7,1 aha152x=0x140,9,7,1"
otherwise your kernel just gets the last.
> 2) If so, is there a particular order they should be in?
No order. The order in which the SCSI drivers are initialized is
determined by the order in linux/init/main.c
You won't be happy with that, because the aha1520 is before the fdomain.
I'd prefer the following solution: Compile the aha1520 driver as module
and load it in your boot scripts (modprobe aha1520) or autoload it with
the kerneld (options aha1520=x0140,9,7,1 alias block-major-8 aha1520).
So your fdomain driver is loaded at kernel initialization time and the
aha1520 whenever you want.
> 3) Is the "append" statement in lilo.conf the only way in which I
> can get the kernel to find my SCSI controllers?
Modules ...
Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
