Re: Adding scsi devices ???

[lorian@fsavigny.de]

Michael,

forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed
your point.

  > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system.  He
  > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post.
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^

What does the underlined expression mean? Are there some messages
indicating that the devices are recognised? Where from? Do the devices
work? What is the exact problem?

Assuming nothing works:

I'll not cite what you have reported about messages, but the obvious
assumption seems - to me - that he does not have the right low level
driver either compiled in or as a module. The trouble with the stock
kernels is that they lack documentation about what is compiled in and
what is not (or am I wrong here?).

It is neither entirely clear to me whether your SCSI controller
requires the same driver nor that it is _not_ compiled into your
kernel. It is only clear you don't have an aic7xxx module.

The only remedy I could personally think of would be to compile a
kernel from scratch, with the correct driver (well, come to think of
it, I think it is principally possible to add a module only, but I
suppose you also need a kernel source tree to compile it. But if you
can get a binary module somewhere that is compiled for this kernel
version, I think it is possible to just load it.).

Or does anyone know how to get the .config files for the stock
kernels?

Florian