Re: Adaptec AHA 1542 using port 130
Set sw2, sw3, and sw4 to off. BTW, the default for all the switches is
off which may be what you want.
Gerry
gerry@blue.intele.net
On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Keith Beattie[SFSU Student] wrote:
> Debianites,
>
> I'm installing .96R6 (with the alternate boot disk) from scratch and
> I'm having trouble getting my Adaptec AHA 1542 SCSI card recognized
> with the boot disk created in the installation process.
>
> Since my card uses port (interupt?) 0x130, the SCSI HOWTO tells me that
> if it's not on port 330 or 334 I need to specify "aha1542=0x130" at the
> boot: prompt. That works just fine with the initial boot disk (which
> gives me a boot: prompt) and allows me to partition and format
> /dev/sda. The boot disk created in the installation process never
> gives a boot prompt and hence I don't get the chance to specify port
> 130. It just boots up, fails to find the host adapter and fsck fails.
>
> I poked around the limited filesystem looking for someplace I could
> specify the port for the card - no luck. Finaly I tried removing the
> /dev/sda line from /etc/fstab (cat is *not* my editor of choice! :).
> On boot up fsck succeeds but once I log in as root an infinite loop of
> error messages scroll by. Something about password failure. (Sorry I
> can't remember more about this last problem but I hoping (somehow) it's
> a symptom of the SCSI host adapter problem.)
>
>
> I see a couple of possible solutions to this:
>
> 1) Get the card to use port 330 or 340. I tried this but not having
> any documentation on the card itself, makes this difficult. After
> about an hour of flipping dip switches and power-cycling the farthest I
> get is a "Host Adapter not found!" in the card's setup program after
> hitting <cntl>-a at boot up and trying to select port 330 or 334.
> Anybody know (or where I can learn) about jumper and/or dip switch
> setting on this card?
>
> 2) Somehow get the kernel on the installation-created boot disk to use
> port 130 for my card. I plan on evetually using lilo but that comes
> later... so there's no /etc/lilo.conf yet.
>
> 3) Use the new 1.1 disks. I plan on doing this soon anyway. I just
> thought I'd try "working through" a base installation with what was
> avaliable. Will I still be faced with the same problem though?
>
> System info:
> 486-33DX, 20M Ram
> ISA bus
> 2 IDE drives: 124M & 330M
> 1 Adaptec AHA 1540CF/1542CF BIOS v2.01 SCSI host adapter
> 1 IBM 958M SCSI drive
> Trident video card 1M
> (As of last night, running Linux kernel 1.1.8, 2-year-old slackware
> dist.)
>
> Many Thanks,
> Keith
>
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