At IBM, they taught me that this sort of request requires the submission of a
Form 50.
On Tue, 25 May 1999, April Escamilla wrote:
>Ok, here is my situation as best I can describe it.
>
>Prior to the installation of RH6.0, our scsi tape device worked and
>functioned normally with our backup software and RH5.2.
>
>When I installed RH6.0, it was unable to locate the scsi device during
>installation. So I set about the task of recompiling the kernel with the
>correct driver (in this case, adaptech 7xxx family). To my untrained eye,
>this appeared to go very well (I followed the step by step instructions
>provided in the RH6.0 installation manual). After some frustration, all the
>makes performed well, with no errors reported. I proceeded to reboot the
>system with our newly compiled kernel. However, the system cannot see
>device /dev/st0. An "mt -f /dev/st0 status" returns the message "no such
>device".
> Using a dmesg | less to look at the boot up output, I came across this
>error msg in regards to the scsi device in question. I'll list it here:
>
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294x SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/0
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
> (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> (scsi0) during the machine bootup.
> (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 406 instructions downloaded
> (scsi0) Couldn't register IRQ 9, ignoring controller
>scsi : 0 hosts.
>scsi : detected total
>
> I'm guessing I did something incorrect during the recompilation process,
>since this device worked well before RH6.0. I send this out in the hope
>that some guru out there can spot something else that perhaps is non-kernel
>related that I'm just missing. I don't know how one would verify that the
>driver detected settings are correct, and if it is something that can be
>fixed in the adaptec scsi bios, life would be grand!
> The only other information I can provide is the fact that I installed
>the correct adaptec driver during a "make menuconfig" not as a module, but
>as an item to be included with the recompiled kernel. The only other thing
>I added to recompile was a cyclades driver for a board we have on this
>system. The dmesg | less info on that cyclades driver did NOT produce an
>error message.
> Anyhow, this is a pretty specific problem, most likely due to something
>I did during the recompiling of the kernel. If anyone out there has ideas
>other than this, I'd love to hear them :)
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