I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. The disks as some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some DECstations.
The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will recognize and access these drives. The kernel on the Debian rescue disk that I tried (modification date of 1997-03-25 for the disk image) finds the Future Domain controller but times out waiting for a response from the drives. Eventually it declares that no devices were found. Any suggestions? A brief glance at the source code for the device driver for this controller (isn't it wonderful to be able to say that?) indicates that there is a DO_DETECT flag to control some extra code. My next attempt will be to create a custom kernel with this flag enabled and build custom boot floppies unless there are better suggestions from the list. The old RZ23 drives had problems with other controllers in the past so it may be the specific type of drive. Suggestions welcome.
