> > > 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. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > >=20 > > 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".
I see. That would indicate the hardware basically works, I guess. > Try modprobe aic7xxx - if it's there, it'll load it... But you still wouldn't know whether the driver is compiled into the kernel or not (though this might be rather rare) -- although: see below. > > Or does anyone know how to get the .config files for the stock > > kernels? > > Don't they end up in /boot? Yes indeed, I just discovered that shortly after writing this (and it is indeed a good idea). I suppose having a glimpse into the file should solve the question. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
