[96753] in RedHat Linux List
configuring an Adaptec 2920 with an HP 5000i DAT drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David E. Fox)
Thu Oct 29 05:03:57 1998
From: "David E. Fox" <dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com>
Reply-To: dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:24:37 -0800
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If this is a FAQ, please excuse as I am having line problems at present
and Web pages are taking way too long to load.
Anyhow, to be brief, I picked up an Adaptec 2920 PCI SCSI card and an
HP 4mm DAT drive (5000i).
I am in the process of installing/configuring this. However, when I
compile in the future domain driver (the AIC driver doesn't work for
this card, as I found out) the system responds with "scsi: 0 hosts" even
though the drive is connected.
I've got the HP DAT drive configured on channel #3, and there are some
dip switches on the bottom of the drive that I'm not sure of. The HP
manual notes some settings for some Unices, but Linux is not among
them :(.
Reading the SCSI Howto and the Future domain readme in the kernel
(2.0.34) source suggest that I might need an append line in the
BIOS. I'm not sure about this, and exactly how it should look.
Also, and I wrote about this in a previous message -- the kernel for
the future domain when loaded in prevents X from running. The kernel
that I normally use, which doesn't have any SCSI in there, allows X
to start normally. I am mystified about this as well.
Any hints? Anyone with this particular combo out there?
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