Set sw2, sw3, and sw4 to off. BTW, the default for all the switches is off which may be what you want.
Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] wrote: > Debianites, > > I'm installing .96R6 (with the alternate boot disk) from scratch and > I'm having trouble getting my Adaptec AHA 1542 SCSI card recognized > with the boot disk created in the installation process. > > Since my card uses port (interupt?) 0x130, the SCSI HOWTO tells me that > if it's not on port 330 or 334 I need to specify "aha1542=0x130" at the > boot: prompt. That works just fine with the initial boot disk (which > gives me a boot: prompt) and allows me to partition and format > /dev/sda. The boot disk created in the installation process never > gives a boot prompt and hence I don't get the chance to specify port > 130. It just boots up, fails to find the host adapter and fsck fails. > > I poked around the limited filesystem looking for someplace I could > specify the port for the card - no luck. Finaly I tried removing the > /dev/sda line from /etc/fstab (cat is *not* my editor of choice! :). > On boot up fsck succeeds but once I log in as root an infinite loop of > error messages scroll by. Something about password failure. (Sorry I > can't remember more about this last problem but I hoping (somehow) it's > a symptom of the SCSI host adapter problem.) > > > I see a couple of possible solutions to this: > > 1) Get the card to use port 330 or 340. I tried this but not having > any documentation on the card itself, makes this difficult. After > about an hour of flipping dip switches and power-cycling the farthest I > get is a "Host Adapter not found!" in the card's setup program after > hitting <cntl>-a at boot up and trying to select port 330 or 334. > Anybody know (or where I can learn) about jumper and/or dip switch > setting on this card? > > 2) Somehow get the kernel on the installation-created boot disk to use > port 130 for my card. I plan on evetually using lilo but that comes > later... so there's no /etc/lilo.conf yet. > > 3) Use the new 1.1 disks. I plan on doing this soon anyway. I just > thought I'd try "working through" a base installation with what was > avaliable. Will I still be faced with the same problem though? > > System info: > 486-33DX, 20M Ram > ISA bus > 2 IDE drives: 124M & 330M > 1 Adaptec AHA 1540CF/1542CF BIOS v2.01 SCSI host adapter > 1 IBM 958M SCSI drive > Trident video card 1M > (As of last night, running Linux kernel 1.1.8, 2-year-old slackware > dist.) > > Many Thanks, > Keith > > -- > // Keith Beattie Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) \\ > // SFSU Grad Student Imaging and Distributed Computing Group (ITG) \\ > // [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~beattie \\ > // 1 Cyclotron Rd. MS: 50B-2239 Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 486-6692 \\ > >
