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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : <peter.homann@prr.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:22:44 +1030 (CST)

Re: Adaptec SCSI Card

Hi,

> 	I've just added an Adaptec 2930U SCSI card and Sony CRX160S CD-RW to my
> system, but I'm unsure which module I need to add to the kernel to get
> it to work.
> 
> 	Can someone point me in the right direction? There isn't an option for
> that card model, or even 29xx in the 2.4.1 source. Maybe a patch to the
> source is available?
> 
> 	Curiously, when I compiled the SCSI stuff into the kernel, rather than
> modules, I could see the CD drive in /proc/scsi/scsi, but when I tried
> to access it, I had "/dev/scd0 has wrong major or minor number", in
> spite of it looking OK according to devices.txt. Even then, I couldn't
> see the card, which is probably why I couldn't mount the drive.
> 
> 	I'm prepared to have the obvious slapped in my face, apart from "is the
> card installed?" etc. On booting up, CTRL-A can access the card, and it
> successfully identifies the drive.

I'm using exactly this card under RH6.2 and kernel 2.2.17 The way I got
the card working was to compile its support into the kernel, it wouldn't
work as modules. Once compiled in it detected the card and automatically
setup my CD as a link to /dev/scd0

I've not tried burning from the CD, but reading works fine.

Hope this helpd in a small way.

cya

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