Re: SCSI challenge
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:50:35PM -0800, David S. Bach wrote:
> What I cannot do yet is get Debian 2.2r2 to speak with my Advansys
> SCSI card. Tied to it are a couple of gigabytes of storage I would be
Which boot-floppy flavour did you use? Vanilla-boot-floppies have
advansys support included, there sould be some messages while kernel
boots. Compact seems to support it, too. Idepci doesn't, Udma66 has it
built as a module, so "modprobe advansys" should do something
sensible.
Might be, changeing to the right kernel helps, if you use the
idepci one. If it is udma66, add the line "advansys" to /etc/modules.
If this doesn't help much, say which card it is exactly you have
and/or look at the following addresses.
> What are my options to access the SCSI storage through the Advansys
> card? Advansys claims to actively support Linux, but offers modules
> only for Red Hat and Suse, which I can download - but, hey!, what do
> I do with them?
Get the source and build your own kernel - if the card is not
supported by the actual kernel, but is with the latest driver.
> I almost always solve my Linux problems (I have two other vanilla PCs
> running Linux as a gateway and a Web server) with man pages and
> HOWTOs. But this has me stumped. Can anyone out there direct me to
> the right resource?
Snipped from kernel 2.2.18 source:
/*
* advansys.h - Linux Host Driver for AdvanSys SCSI Adapters
*
* Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Advanced System Products, Inc.
* Copyright (c) 2000 ConnectCom Solutions, Inc.
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that redistributions of source
* code retain the above copyright notice and this comment without
* modification.
*
* As of March 8, 2000 Advanced System Products, Inc. (AdvanSys)
* changed its name to name to ConnectCom Solutions, Inc.
*
* There is an AdvanSys Linux WWW page at:
* http://www.connectcom.net/downloads/software/os/linux.html
* http://www.advansys.com/linux.html
*
* The latest released version of the AdvanSys driver is available at:
* ftp://ftp.advansys.com/pub/linux/linux.tgz
* ftp://ftp.connectcom.net/pub/linux/linux.tgz
*
* Please send questions, comments, bug reports to:
* linux@connectcom.net or bfrey@turbolinux.com.cn
*/
--
Bye,
Dietmar
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