[442] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Adaptec 294x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mail Archive)
Sat Jul 29 21:44:31 1995
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 18:03:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mail Archive <archive@cps201.cps.cmich.edu>
To: Robert Forsman <thoth@cis.ufl.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199507272205.SAA26141@aviator.cis.ufl.edu>
Use debian instead of slackware...
They have a boot disk capable of handling the 2940 :) I know they do
because I was the person who submitted the request for it so that my scsi
controller would work... :)
On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, Robert Forsman wrote:
>
> The SCSI-HOWTO on tsx-11 says that the Adaptec 294x series is supported by
> Linux. However, I'm booting the latest slackware scsinet1 kernel (1.2.8) and
> it's telling me
>
> scsi : 0 hosts.
>
> The SCSI drive and CD-ROM work under DOS, so it's probably not a hardware
> problem.
>
> Do I have to trade this controller in on something else, or is linux
> supposed to detect 294x series controllers?
>
> I'm gonna have a hard time installing linux if I can't even access the
> destination media.
>
