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Re: AHA1520B not recognized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C.J. Oster)
Sat Feb 7 13:23:37 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 09:38:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "C.J. Oster" <lordvadr@phix.com>
To: glenn murphy <gpmurphy@mcs.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980206211310.306A-100000@gutenberg.localdomain>
don't shadow the bios. Another guyhad the same problem, and he had the
bios shadow on. He turned it off and it worked great. Noet, if you turn
it off, the kernel won't auto-detect the card and you have to force
detection from the command line.
-CJO-
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, glenn murphy wrote:
> Please don't ask me why, but I bought an Adaptec AHA-1520B. I wanted to
> mess around with SCSI devices, the SCSI-HOWTO said it was a supported
> card, and it was cheap. I can get it running fine in Windoze, so I don't
> believe I have a hardware conflict, but Linux does not detect it. I'm
> running 2.0.30 with SCSI support and the aha152x driver compiled into the
> kernel. The card reports the BIOS at C8000h, port 0x340, IRQ 11, all
> seemingly normal. I've tried turning off the card's BIOS and forcing
> detection with an append line, but it didn't work. Any suggestions would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Glenn Murphy
> gpmurphy@mcs.net
>
>
