Slackware 9.0 and scsi problem

[John Finkenbine]

> John Finkenbine wrote:
> 
> >
> >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
> >
> >  
> >
> In that case your scsi card is not even seen. The raid controller
> blurb you are seeing has nothing to do with your scsi chipset. Is
> there not an entry in your system BIOS to enable or disable the
> Adaptec controller? Have a look, maybe its turned off, I'm just
> guessing here.
> 
> -- 
> Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
> Westbank, B. C.


You are exactly right that the raid controller blurb has nothing to do 
with the scsi card - I saw the same messages on another system that 
is all ide.  Clearly, the scsi adapter is not being seen, although if I try 
other distros, it definitely *is* seen.  Also, I run DOS from that scsi hd.  
The scsi system is most definitely turned on.

John