[5428] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: Seagate SCSI drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Tue Dec 15 17:27:30 1998
In-Reply-To: <199812151706.LAA03142@feynman.phys.subr.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:39:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
To: <phguna@feynman.phys.subr.edu (Gunasingha Rathnayaka)>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
First of all, I think you need to be looking at your SCSI CONTROLLER, not
the drive. It appears to be an Adaptec 2740/2840/2940, so you need the proper
driver, which I believe is the aic7xxx (that's what I use for my 2940UW).
Next, I've had problems with the Redhat 5.2 kernel and the 2940UW. Redhat
says their kernel (2.0.36) is broken for the 2740UW. I used a 2.0.33 kernel
with aic7xxx support compiled in and it works fine.
I would try the Slackware install with the adaptec or aic boot disk. Failing
that, get ahold of a 2.0.33 kernel on a floppy somehow and use that.
On 15-Dec-98 Gunasingha Rathnayaka wrote:
>
> My problem is getting partitioned the SCSI drive I have.
>
> My computer is Gateway-2000 which has a SCSI drive SEAGATE ST32155W.
>
> I started with Red-hat.5.1 CD to install Linux.
>
> First it started as usual and I answered questions it asked. Then it came to
> a point to auto probe the SCSI and it scanned and identified as
> Adaptec 2740, 2840, 2940. Then i needed to do partition /dev/sda drive.
> When I chose the fdisk and it gave me an message called Input/Output error.
> Beyond that point I can't move. I appreciate any help I can do partition
> /dev/sda from RED-HAT.
>
> ===============================
>
> After that I tried with slack-ware.3.4. In that case I chose the boot disk
> Seagate.s for booting. As the documents say I get message SCSI: 0 hosts.
> which means SCSI controller was not detected.
>
> In the documents "booting linux" says I have to give special parameters at
> the boot prompt to force hardware detection.
>
> it should be ramdisk st0x= <memaddr>,irq
>
> My question is, how do I find this memaddress and IRQ for this drive.
>
> Any help?.
>
> phguna
>
>
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