Hello again, With my extra memory problem solved, I've been working on getting through the rest of my setup problems (on an IBM Thinkpad 560Z).
I have a SCSI pcmcia card (Adaptec, APA-1460 SCSI Host Adapter). When I did my build (2.0.38 from floppies), I included SCSI support. But, I didn't have any devices connected to the SCSI card, it was just in a slot. I have since connected a jaz disk and a Toshiba CDROM to the card. Now when I boot, the system can ID the devices and gets the right SCSI addresses. When I boot, I have a cd in the cdrom but no jaz disk loaded. Here's the pertinent part of the dmesg output: ......................... aha152x: processing commandline: ok aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parit y=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok. scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $ scsi : 1 host. Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 1GB Rev: H.72 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1037 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0, absolute sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0, absolute sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device 0b:00 sr_photocd: ioctl error (TOSHIBA #1): 0x28000000 Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device 0b:00 sr_photocd: ioctl error (TOSHIBA #1): 0x28000000 VFS: Disk change detected on device 0b:00 ttyS01 unloaded ............................................. One thing I notice is that the Adaptec SCSI driver it's loading seems to be for a different model (aha152X not apa1460). I took a look at the SCSI-programming howto, but this doesn't seem to be what I need, and it's pretty darned intimidating. I thought perhaps the problem wast that /dev/sr0 and /dev/sda don't exist, so I tried to figure out how to use MAKEDEV, but there doesn't seem to be much documentation for it. Any suggestions? Finally, is there a driver out there for the IBM portable CDROM drives (card services identifies it as "IBM", "PCMCIA Portable CD-ROM Drive")? This plugs into a pcmcia card which is labeled "IDE", but NT thinks it is a SCSI device. Sorry for the long mail, and Thanks in advance, Biff -- Dr. William A. Heindl CASS/UCSD-0424 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9500 Gilman Dr. phone: (858)534-8016 fax: (858)534-2294 La Jolla, CA 92093 www: http://mamacass.ucsd.edu:8080/people/wheindl.html
