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RE: Adaptec AHA1510 S100
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Stagg)
Tue May 26 04:33:10 1998
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:38:05 +0000 (WAT)
From: Richard Stagg <stagg@bae.co.uk>
To: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980523060059.dave@nic.com>
On Sat, 23 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > I've built a 2.0.30 kernel, specifying use of AHA152x drivers (which we
> > believe from the FAQ includes a 1510) but the error persists. According to
> > the documentation with the card, the AHA1510 does not have booting
> > capability, and has no BIOS. Could this be an issue here?
>
> Yes, there are only a limited set of addresses/irq's that the driver probes by
> default. Others must be specified manually. This is easy to do, though.
>
> Simply use "append=aha152x=0x140,12", where 0x140 is base address, and 12 is
> irq, to your /etc/lilo.conf then re-run lilo.
Spot on, and many thanks. We had actually tried this before, but using
RedHat rather than Slackware. Do you know any reason why a RedHat
installation would have barfed on that "append" line?
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