> >I have an Adaptec adapter with an internal CDRW and IOMEGA Zip on the > >external 68-pin connector. On bootup my kernel seems to "see" the devices > >but does not report back mountable points (ie sda, sdb4).
Expensive adapter for slow devices... :-) > >aic7xxx: Warning - detected auto-termination on controller: > >aic7xxx: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> at PCI 9/0 aic7xxx: > >Please verify driver detected settings are correct. aic7xxx: If not, then > >please properly set the device termination aic7xxx: in the Adaptec SCSI > >BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted aic7xxx: during machine bootup. > > This says it all. You have termination enabled on the adapter, but that > is wrong! Disable termination when you are > using two cables, as the adapter is in the middle of the chain! It is > probably unable to "see" your devices, as the wrong termination destroys > signals. The message says "auto-termination" is on, not "termination" is on. > >aic7xxx: Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 NO, Ext-68 NO) > Looks like it doesn't see the external cable. could be the termination > problem, could be a loose cable. The 2.0.35 kernel's aic7xxx driver would not detect external devices for me. A newly patched version that works still says: aic7xxx: Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) Yet, it detects my external devices! His ZIP is also detected, so perhaps that's not the problem. > >aic7xxx: Termination (Low ON, High ON) > [...] > > Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4260 Rev: 1.0h > > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > >(scsi0:0:6:0) Refusing WIDE negotiation; using 8 bit transfers. > >(scsi0:0:6:0) Refusing synchronous negotiation; using asynchronous > >transfers. > > Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.02 > > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi > >: detected total. > The controller see both devices... > >Partition check: > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 > > cdrom isn't harddisk and shouldn't show up here anyway. don't know about > zip drives. He has an IDE disk, and this is what is being reported here. What the SCSI drivers has found can always be seen by: $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi althought that doesn't list the associated device names like he wants. > Fix the termination first. Did you compile the kernel? If so, make sure > you support all kinds of scsi devices: disks, cdroms, and others. I'd suggest grabbing the latest aic7xxx driver at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing/ -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd Linux user at the Linux Counter -- http://counter.li.org/
