[3295] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Different card, still clueless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Collins)
Wed Feb 11 16:36:37 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:50:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Collins <collinsj@ece.ucdavis.edu>
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.
I have one of those BusLogic boards in a similar configuration (RedHat 5).
You do not need to change the kernel. Make sure that the SCSI bus is
properly terminated and that the ID on the drive(s) is/are properly set to
nonconflicting addresses. That board has a setup BIOS screen (Control-B
on boot). Go in there and ask it to scan the SCSI bus. If you don't see
all your devices, you have a hardware problem (ie. cabling, termination or
ID) that must be solved first. --jw
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Jeff Collins, collinsj@ece.ucdavis.edu, Computer Engineering Research Lab
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of California, Davis
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