On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 09:53, Rudi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:04:27AM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:58, Patrick Nelson wrote: > > > FC1 uptodate with yum. > > > > > > I have to move a scsi drive to a system because the system that it is on > > > is old and is failing... Problem is that I don't have a SCSI card in > > > any of my other systems. I went looking in my ole' bin of computer > > > cards and found 2 IDE SCSI cards: > > > > > > Adaptec AHA-1520A > > > Adaptec AHA-1540CF > > > > > > The 1520 has jumpers on it and I have no idea what they are, but the > > > 1540 has a toggle switch block with a lable on the back of the card > > > documenting the toggles. Great... > > > > > > But I was wondering should I even try either of these or buy (or search > > > for) another version. I'm running out of time with the failing system > > > and kind of want to resolve this quicker. Any suggestions to how to > > > setup the 1540 or a better course of action? > As you already stated, the 154x is an old ISA card and is still supported by FC1 > > The setup of the card is quit simple, select an I/O port and a BIOS address > not in use. The bios address is only neccesary if want to boot from the drive. > > sw5 is only used if a floppydrive is connected (1542) so that's a don't care. > > If you only connect 1 disk drive, termination should be enabled on the controller > as well on the drive. > > If you want to use a slightly more modern card you could go for a ncr/symbios > 53c810 it's a cheap and reliable card. Thanks for the reply! I am connecting to only one device (a 1GB Jazz Drive) that I will not be booting from. It is used as a backup device (I have lots of the removable drives). so performance isn't an issue either. So it sound like I just need to put the card in and load up the driver. Which driver is it? Then I can load up the iomega linux rpm and I should be good to go. If that doesn't work I will go the route of ncr/symbios 53c810
