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  From: <bjohns44@csc.com.au>
  To  : David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:38:05 +1030

Re: Adaptec SCSI Card

This card in question should work just fine with the aic7xxx module. My
friends does.

Regards,
Brandon Johnson
Systems Engineer - NES
CSC Whyalla
ph: +61-8-8640-4530


                                                                                                                     
                    David Drury                                                                                      
                    <idavid@smug.adelai        To:     peter.homann@prr.org.au                                       
                    de.edu.au>                 cc:     linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au                                        
                                               Subject:     Re: Adaptec SCSI Card                                    
                    02/21/2001 11:22                                                                                 
                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                     




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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