[3292] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Different card, still clueless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (root)
Wed Feb 11 02:40:53 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:35:01 -0800 (PST)
From: root <root@fullof.blarney.org>
To: glenn murphy <gpmurphy@mcs.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980211001702.270B-100000@gutenberg.localdomain>
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, glenn murphy wrote:
> After quickly (too quickly?) giving up trying to get an Adaptec AHA-1520B
> to work, I obtained a Buslogic BT-946C. I'm running Redhat 4.2, kernel
> 2.0.30 with scsi support included (Buslogic driver as a module), but I'm
> still getting 0 hosts detected. I would appreciate it if someone could
> give me some tips on BIOS setups (motherboard and SCSI controller) that
> might help me get this thing working. Should the Buslogic driver be
> compiled into the kernel, or should it be a module? Should the
> controler BIOS address be jumpered, or should the motherboard BIOS
> assign it? I'm new at this, and I really don't know what I'm doing. I
> would be grateful for any advice, trial and error has only resulted in
> errors so far.
There are many things involved here, termination, ID, etc. Does the card
see anything attached to it upon initialization? Thats usually a good clue
if everything is set up right hardwarewise.
