Thanks to everyone who answered my mail.
Following a suggestion of Justin Gibbs, I increased bus settle delay from
15 ms, which was my default, to 150 ms. Kernel 2.4.4 compiled with this
change recognizes my CD-ROM without a problem.
Thank you again,
Andy
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >[1.] One line summary of the problem:
> >
> >Kernel 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 do not recognize my SCSI CD-ROM
>
> Your bus settle delay is too short. Reconfig your kernel with
> a longer delay.
>
> You should also upgrade to the latest driver from here:
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/
>
> In later driver versions, the bus settle delay variable was renamed
> to ensure the bus settle delay (now in milliseconds) would return
> to its default value during an upgrade.
>
> --
> Justin
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> Try saying no to the aic7xxx and yes to aic7xxx_old see if that helps
On Mon, 14 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>
> > Kernel 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 do not recognize my SCSI CD-ROM
>
> > I noticed that Changelog-2.4.2 has this record which may or may not
> > be related:
> > Andries Brouwer: remove overly restrictive sector size check
> > for SCSI cd-roms
>
> It is unrelated, because we first have to find a device
> before starting to look at its properties, and your problem
> is that the device is not found.
>
> I notice that 2.4.3 has gotten entirely new aic7xxx drivers,
> so probably the problem is there. Maybe you could try
> CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD instead of CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX.
>
> Andries
>
Dr Andy Tsouladze
Sr Unix SysAdmin
MyPoints.com
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