I am new to Linux and am currently attempting to install the Debian 1.2.17 Linux Distribution. I have successfully written the floppy disks and installed the base system. My problem is with the detection of my Pro Audio Spectrum 16 SCSI controller (= sound card) and the CDROM drive. I have used as a bootprompt: "pas16=0x388,irq", with all possible values for irq filled in. Each time I get abortion of commands, e.g. a line which says: scsi0: command aborted or: scsi0: disconnected_queue. In the linux SCSI HOWTO under section 5.15 PAS16 SCSI (Standard) I read
> Common Problems: > Command timeouts, aborts, etc. > You should install the NCR5380 patches that I posted to the net some time > ago, which should be integrated into some future alpha release. These > patches fix a race condition in earlier NCR5380 driver cores, as well as > fixing support for multiple devices on NCR5380 based boards. > If that fails, you should disable the PSEUDO_DMA option by changing the > #define PSEUDO_DMA line in drivers/scsi/pas16.c to #undef PSEUDO_DMA. > Note that the later should be considered a last resort, because there > will be a severe performance degradation. End of quote from SCSCI HOWTO. My problem is that even if I knew where to find the patch which is mentioned, that I do not have anything installed apart from the base system. The packages like the GNU CC compiler, are still unavailable to me, because they are on the CDROM which has not correctly been detected. Please help me! I think what I need is for someone who is maintaining the Debian releases, to incorporate the above mentioned patch in the kernel or other part of the base system. Then a new floppy image needs to be produced, I don't know whether this would be a new version of the rescue floppy, i.e. file rsc1440.bin, or one of the base floppies. If I can download this new floppy image I will be able to write it to a floppy using rawrite2, and then I can do the installation again, starting with the rescue floppy. >From all the information which I have read in my Media Vision Double Fusion LX sound card + cdrom drive manual and the information in the CDROM HOWTO, the bootprompt HOWTO and the SCSI HOWTO, I feel sure that I should use the bootprompt pas16=0x388,irq and not any other of the bootprompts which are described for other controllers and CDROM drives. I would appreciate it very much if I could hear in the near future that a new version of one of the floppy images have been produced, which would solve the detection of the CDROM. My next question is: Which of the Device Driver Modules in the installation setup should I configure? I have so far had no success in configuring any of them. Last question: in the dselect /access step for installing from a CDROM I am asked to mention the block device driver. I have tried all kinds of things, such as /dev/sbpcd0, /dev/sjcd /dev/scd0 etc, but nothing has worked so far. What should I enter here, assuming that my CDROM has been correctly detected through the bootprompt? I hope I will soon be able to continue the installation of my new Debian Linux distribution! Yours, Martien de Groot e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .