Slackware 9.0 and scsi problem

[John Finkenbine]

>John Finkenbine wrote:

>> For these there is an 
>>adaptec.s boot diskette which supports a number of different 
Adaptec 
>>cards, including the aic7xxx models.  It is this boot diskette that 
thinks 
>>it is seeing a RAID controller and not the simple scsi adapter.
>>
>>The plot thickens.
>>
>>John
>  
>
>So during boot you see something along the lines  of blah blah 
>aic7xxx  
>etc raid controller or just a separate entry with "detecting raid 
>controller etc" From what I seem to get here is that your Adaptec 
>card 
>isn't even seen. Your scsi card is not being seen as anything. I do not 
>think that the raid controller entry you are seeing has anything to do 
>with your scsi card.  Do you get the <Ctrl A> prompt when you cold 
>boot 
>your machine? If so what are the settings in your scsi bios? I run the 
>aic7xx module  on a 2940 (I think thats what I have) used for my 
>scanner 
>I have a definate pause during bootup with the aic7xx module while it 
>probes for attached devices, then reports tha attached devices and 
>the 
>loading of linux continues.  Do you still have Slack 8.0 on that 
>machine 
>(or other distro)?  if so do an lspci and see what  the resources for 
>that chipset are.
>
>-- 
>Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
>Westbank, B. C.
>
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During boot there is no indication of the aic7xxx modules doing 
anything at all.  There is just a separate entry "md: Detecting raid 
controller"  etc.  This is 10 year old hardware and it is EISA bus.  The 
embedded scsi controller has no bios, therefore no Ctrl-A.  The 
features we are used to having are not there.  I can't even set the scsi 
to translate greater than 1 GB hard disks!

John