On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 06:04:01PM +0000, Bruce Korb wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I have loaded the S.u.S.E. 6.1 distribution.
> I have both an IDE and a SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940 controller.
> The BIOS can see the controller and identifies the disk just fine.
> Linux cannot see it. Supposedly, the aic7xxx driver should
> work with it..... Meanwhile, I dual boot by going into the
> BIOS and changing the primary boot device from IDE to SCSI and back...
Is the Adaptec controller detected by the kernel?
Do you use a kernel with Adaptec driver? Did you try to load it within
linuxrc (The proggie on the bootdisk) ?
> Also, I have a relatively new Iomega parport zip drive.
> Despite loading the parport driver, neither the imm driver
> (which I think is the right one) nor the ppa driver will
> load. They complain of the port being busy. There is
> nothing on it that I know about. The HOWTOs were not too
> helpful. One mentioned that a certain message meant that
> SCSI was loaded but could not see anything. I got that
> message, but the HOWTO did not say what to do about
> it :-(.
Try=20
modprobe parport_pc=20
first
and adjust the settings in /proc/parport if necessary
--=20
Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, N=FCrnberg, FRG
Linux kernel development; SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395
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