>I want to add a Smart & Friendly SCSI CD-R to a PIII/450 system with an IDE
>HDD and a ATAPI IDE CD-ROM. SCSI CD-R works fine under Win98. SCSI adapter
>is an Adaptec 1520 clone, that came with the CD-R. On Windows, it works
>fine under 0340 & IRQ10.
>
>RH 6.0 does not find the card on install process. It asks for a manual
>setup of the adapter, and asks for modules.
>
>I looked on the SCSI HOWTO, and what it says regarding the Adaptec 152x is
>that it can be set up manually on LILO prompt with the following line:
>
>linux aha152x=0340,10,7,1
>
>which corresponds to the port, IRQ, scsi ID and parity. After using this
>line at LILO prompt, boot starts, but when it gets to SCSI checkup, it gets
>SCSI:0.
I had the same problem with a DTC3510 card that is supposed to work like
an Adaptec 152x, and actually got it working in Windows, but had the same
problem as you had on Linux.
I tried several things but finally gave up and change the card for an
Adaptec 2940. This card got recognized at startup, but anyway I had to do
an 'insmod aic7xxx' (you'll want to try 'insmod aha152x'), and then just
insert a CD in the CD-R and mount it, which i did as root:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdwriter
you'll have to create the /mnt/cdwriter directory or else mount the CD-R
in the cdrom directory (if it's unused) or any other that you'd find
appropriate.
This is just for testing the setup, and you'll be browsing the CD as if
it were a CD-ROM. I haven't tried to burn a CD as I have yet to find
software and install it, but i guess that the software talks directly to
the scsi host and you dont't need to mount anything to write to a blank
CD. In fact it doesn't seem to me like you can mount a blank CD since it
has no filesystem...you don't mount the CD-R you actually mount the
filesystem that's in a disk...
You may also add a line to /etc/lilo.conf to add support for the card
from the startup lilo prompt (or either write it yourself at the prompt
each time), read the thread named 'steps to add scsi', from last week.
This worked for me, YMMV.
PS: any good software recommended for writing CDs?
PS2: any good software for doing programmed backups (incremental,
compressed, etc...) and restores?
Lic. Fernan Aguero
Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas
Universidad Nacional de General San Martin
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