On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:53:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael, > > forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed > your point. > > > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > What does the underlined expression mean? Are there some messages > indicating that the devices are recognised? Where from? Do the devices > work? What is the exact problem?
Power On Self Test, ie. the SCSI card's BIOS is initialising and listing the devices on the bus during the "bit before the OS boots". > Assuming nothing works: > > I'll not cite what you have reported about messages, but the obvious > assumption seems - to me - that he does not have the right low level > driver either compiled in or as a module. The trouble with the stock > kernels is that they lack documentation about what is compiled in and > what is not (or am I wrong here?). > > It is neither entirely clear to me whether your SCSI controller > requires the same driver nor that it is _not_ compiled into your > kernel. It is only clear you don't have an aic7xxx module. > > The only remedy I could personally think of would be to compile a > kernel from scratch, with the correct driver (well, come to think of > it, I think it is principally possible to add a module only, but I > suppose you also need a kernel source tree to compile it. But if you > can get a binary module somewhere that is compiled for this kernel > version, I think it is possible to just load it.). Try modprobe aic7xxx - if it's there, it'll load it... > Or does anyone know how to get the .config files for the stock > kernels? Don't they end up in /boot? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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