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Re: AHA1542CF suddenly stopped working! Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Wed Feb 4 02:29:34 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 23:24:25 -0800
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: libove@felines.org
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980203220541.746Q-100000@panther.felines.org>
(message from Jay Vassos-Libove on Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:10:00 -0500
(EST))
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:10:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Vassos-Libove <libove@felines.org>
A further update -- Leonard was quite right; the card does not work with
anything that attempts to drive it directly: only with its own BIOS.
I attempted to load Windows NT 4.0 on the system, and it spent a
ridiculous amount of time trying to initialize the AHA154X driver. It did
then finish and say that it had found an AHA154X, but said that it did not
see any drives on the bus.
This, by the way, was with _another_ AHA1542 in place of the first one, so
it certainly is not the particular card.
This leaves me with an uncomfortable problem: Has my whole system wiped
out somehow? How could I test for that possibility? Since I changed
nothing in the system (remember, the memory upgrade was successfully
completed and tested prior to my shutting the system down again, when this
problem began), I fear that my system has failed somehow.
I guess I'm back to my initial request...
Heellllpppppp?!
You still haven't reported back on the settings of your motherboard's BIOS. If
the IRQ channel needed by the AHA1542 is not assigned for ISA use, you might
see precisely this behavior.
Leonard
