>>>>> "I" == Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I> I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future I> Domain ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. I> The disks are some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some I> DECstations. I> The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will I> recognize and access these drives. The kernel on the Debian I> rescue disk that I tried (modification date of 1997-03-25 for the I> disk image) finds the Future Domain controller but times out I> waiting for a response from the drives. Eventually it declares I> that no devices were found. Turns out it was an interrupt conflict and not the controller's interactions with the disks. I had inserted an ethernet card to do the conversion to Linux and I didn't pay close enough attention to the IRQ settings. The ethernet card was set to the same IRQ as the SCSI controller.