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Re: scsi controller not detected [OctoChecked] [OctoChecked]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Sun Jan 24 04:59:27 1999

To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 	24 Jan 1999 10:57:55 +0100

Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> wrote:
> 	I installed redhat 5.2 on an NCR53C8XX system with 4.5g
> 	I rebuilt the kernel with support for NCR53C7,8xx

the ncr53c8xx and the 53c7,8xx driver are NOT the same. Please only
use the ncr53c8xx since it's the only one supported.

> I can't access dmesg since I'm not able to boot the system atall.  It
> hangs before it mounts any partitions, and by the way, / file systems is
> its own partition, and /home is also its own.  / is 2.0 gig, and /home is
> 2.3 gig.

Usually when you upgrade the kernel, you keep a copy of the old config
in /etc/lilo.conf  so you can always reboot to the previous kernel
version.

If the system says ``SCSI 0 host'' you didn't compile the
right low-level SCSI driver in.


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