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Jaz / Adaptec Linux success story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Morris Jones)
Mon Nov 11 13:14:14 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 10:01:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Morris Jones <mojo@whiteoaks.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
I wrote last week with questions with the Adaptec 2940 SCSI host, and
supporting it with an IDE drive.
I now have a very nice Linux kit from the RedHat 4.0 package that
works, of a boot floppy and a Jaz disk. There's a working Adaptec 2940
driver available as a module for the new kernel. I could do an
"insmod" and see the jaz disk with no problem.
(I did go through some glitches with the jaz drive and a particular
cartridge. I had a cartridge that wouldn't spin up. But with some
careful attention to timing, and turning the platter manually a little
(who knows if it helped?) I eventually got it turning, fdisked and
formatted. From then on I had no jaz troubles.)
In order to get to this point, I had to made a swap and root partition
out of my IDE drive using FIPS. I loaded the kernel source and
development libraries, and configured and built a kernel with the SCSI
driver (aic7xxx.o) included. Then I could fdisk the jaz cartridge,
making swap and root partitions. I copied the root directories there,
and now I can boot from the floppy and have a great system.
I haven't figured out yet if FIPS will give me back the 350 MB I sliced
off the end of my hard disk. :)
Next on the agenda: bring up X, bring up networking, bring up PPP, and
make it a proxy host so Pam can use the net while I do Linux stuff. :)
Mojo
Morris Jones <*>
Campbell, CA
mojo@whiteoaks.com
http://www.whiteoaks.com
Morris Jones <*>
Campbell, CA
mojo@whiteoaks.com
http://www.whiteoaks.com
