if mandrake is anything like most other distro's
And you haven't recompiled the kernel with support for that card (the
kernel most(if not all) distributions come with only support the bare
minimum and scsi and the like support are compiled as modules.
so as root a modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=11 whatever=7 whatever2=1
That will load the module for that card (you are trying to send it
paramaters as if it was in the kernel - oh it may not even need paramaters
but whatever you just read will tell you about these module paramaters)
would give you that support
and will find your dat drive. If you are the console it will come on the
screen.
To get in startup just stick the modprobe command in etc/rc.d/rc.local
file or whatever you like you could even redo the initrd image but not
necessary.
On Sun, 28 May 2000, donohueb wrote:
> hi slugs,
> i'm trying to convert from a Windblows NT desktop to linux. have chosen
> mandrake for this exercise.
>
> i'm trying to get a scsi tape drive working with a ata1520 scsi card in
> linux. it works fine in NT.
> i've put in a line at the end of lilo.conf
> append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"
> the scsi howto says to do this.
>
> however upon bootup linux mandrake 7.0 reports 0 scsi hosts found.
> there are no hard disks on this scsi bus, just a DAT tape drive.
>
> any suggestions as to where to go or what to start with in detecting the
> scsi card?
> i'm reading the scsi howto but no luck so far.
> any clues as to what to try/read next.
>
>
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