Did you set the option in the kernel config for plug and play? If so, you
may want to turn it off. It looks to me like the kernel found you board
at IRQ 9 and barfed on that since something else already has that IRQ
registered. Since this stuff worked okay on RH 5.2, I would try turning
off the plug and play option in the kernel and try that. Just a quick
guess.
Ido
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 :)
>
> Thanks very very much in advance ,
> April Escamilla
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