Hi all. For some reason I decided to put a new scsi adapter into my redhat (intel) machine. But as far as redhat is concerned, I didn't put anything new in. I think what I need is a decent walk-through from start to finish for adding a scsi adapter into a machine that never had scsi before. Is there a good document around that does this? All the How-to's I've read are 3 years old and of little readability and applicability. Anyway, for what it's worth, I have a new Tekram DC 310, which uses the Symbios 53c810 chip. Why did I get this BIOS-less adapter? Because my motherboard has a built-in symbios for this chipset. Anyway, I built a 2.3.5 kernel with modular support for this chipset, fired it up, but nothing happens. I can do an "lspci" and it shows the adapter, but a "cat /proc/interrupts" shows no sign of it. And during boot-up, Linux reports 0 scsi hosts found. Here's the conf.modules too: [root@localhost /sbin]# more /etc/conf.modules alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc # pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 alias scsi_hostadapter sym53x8xx [root@localhost /sbin]# ./modinfo scsi_hostadapter modinfo: scsi_hostadapter: no module by that name found Now I know that a scsi chain must be terminated on both ends, but I'm not sure how to tell if the adapter end is terminated (I know that the other end -- the scanner -- is terminated). The documentation that came with the adapter doesn't say anything. I do know that the adapter is set to use SCAM. So I'm guessing my problem is (besides ignorance) either 1) scsi not terminated properly, 2) scsi modules not loading (highly likely since I'm not sure of the syntax), 3) something missing on the linux command line, or 4) all of the above. I'd really appreciate a few pointers...thanks in advance. derek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
