On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:47:45PM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote: > 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? It' the aha154x ad you can just add 'alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx' to the /etc/modules.conf or to the /etc/modprobe.conf if you are using a 2.6 kernel Remember it is a ISA card and only supported by older motherboard. > > 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 RGDS Rudi. -- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; To mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. I know which one I'll trust. How about you?
