Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list--
My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Under MD9.0, there was a query "Do you have disk/scsi?" when Upgrade-ing in Expert Mode, that allowed me to select the Adaptec Host Adapter aha152x, insert appropriate parameters, and the Canon scanner was recognised (I couldn't use it, due to lack of stable drivers, but that's another story). After that, the SCSI device was recognised automatically on boot-up. However under 9.1, Expert install doesn't recognise the SCSI card or provide any means of getting it incorporated manually, as far as I can see. Once the system is up, "modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,.........." etc.on the CLI gets the SCSI card and scanner recognised and MCC Scannerdrake gets the CanoScan onto the scanner database. But it's all lost when I power down - which I have to do frequently for some unavoidable dual-booting with Win$. It's a real PITA.:-( Is there something I'm missing during Expert install? Or is there some way of incorporating the modprobe, etc.into boot-up? I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with "depmod -a", lilo.conf ansd running /sbin/lilo, putting stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998,Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, and got me unfortunately, no further forward. TIA DougB
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