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Re: Datacopy Scanner
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Sun Oct 20 15:21:05 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:40:42 +0100 (BST)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <54dqal$13j@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On 20 Oct 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> I'm currently trying to get some kind of sanity out of a datacopy scanner
> attached to an AHA1542 I was donated. At the moment the machine happily
> boots, its finds the other devices (ID 0, Rodime 40Mb SCSI disk, ID 6,
> prehistoric IBM single speed SCSI cdrom). Im pretty sure the datacopy
> scanner is handling the scsi fine as its seeing scsi bus resets (it
> whirrs, clunks and resets itself) and if I set the jumpers at random
> (no manual) I can get it on ID 6 and it upsets the CD-ROM. It doesnt
> however want to show up.
I'm having similar trouble with a DEC hard disk attached to an AMD 53C974
controller. The drive seems to be working, and the controller's BIOS scan
picks it up, but when the kernel boots it gets completely ignored.
I tried it on my Alpha (with an NCR810 host) and it seemed fine. Bizarre.
phil
