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Adaptec 1520B and Slackware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk)
Wed Jul 8 08:19:24 1998
From: peter.hicks@poggs.co.uk
To: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:52:37 +0000
CC: pwh@etienne.poggs.co.uk
Folks,
I'm having terrible trouble booting my system from the aha152x.s and
color.gz supplied with Slackware 3.5.
The SCSI card is on base address 0x340, IRQ 9, and SCSI ID 7 - I pass
the following to LILO to detect the card:
mount root=/dev/fd0 aha152x=0x340,9,7,1
This will detect the card and the devices connected to it (one tape
drive, on SCSI CD-ROM and one SCSI hard drive), but when it prompts
for the root disk, I get the same data errors on the same parts of
the disk.
Now for the spooky bit - it doesn't bring up any errors if I don't
pass any parameters to the kernel via LILO, i.e. if the SCSI card
isn't detected.
I know there are no problems with the SCSI card as I've been using it
for goodness knows how long with Slackware 3.4, and everything's been
running absolutely fine.
When I originally installed the system, I was using an Adaptec 1540
card, and so I've never needed to boot from floppy with the 1520B.
Anyone got any ideas?
Peter Hicks
Network Engineer
Poggs Computer Services
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