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  From: Freeman, Peter (ERHS) <Freeman.Peter@saugov.sa.gov.au>
  To  : <peter.homann@prr.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:41:59 +1030

RE: Adaptec SCSI Card

I have the previous scsi Sony burner running off an Adaptec 2906 card.
Am running Mdk 7.2, and the card was picked up automatically.  It loads the
aic7xxx module, which I would imagine is the one you'd need.
As far as the burner goes, all I did was crank up Xcdroast & start burning
cd's!  I was a bit surprised as i thought I'd need to load modules for the
burner etc, now I realize why ppl recommend scsi burners for linux.



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Homann [mailto:phomann@prr.org.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2001 12:11 AM
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: Adaptec SCSI Card


Dear all,
	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'd rather not have to reconfigure "Other_OS" just to use the CD
burner! Come to think of it, I'd rather not boot "Other_OS" at
all...haven't had to for 18 months, why start now?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Peter Homann
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