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[Martien de Groot <mdgroot@baan.nl>]

 I am new to Linux and am currently attempting to install the Debian
1.2.17 Linux Distribution.
 I have successfully written the floppy disks and installed the base
system. My problem is with the detection of my Pro Audio Spectrum 16
 SCSI controller (= sound card) and the CDROM drive.
 I have used as a bootprompt: "pas16=0x388,irq", with all possible
values for irq filled in.
 Each time I get abortion of commands, e.g. a line which says:
 scsi0: command aborted or: scsi0: disconnected_queue.
 
 In the linux SCSI HOWTO under section 5.15 PAS16 SCSI (Standard) I read

 
> Common Problems:
 
> Command timeouts, aborts, etc.
 
> You should install the NCR5380 patches that I posted to the net some
time 
> ago, which should be integrated into some future alpha release. These 
> patches fix a race condition in earlier NCR5380 driver cores, as well
as
> fixing support for multiple devices on NCR5380 based boards.
 
> If that fails, you should disable the PSEUDO_DMA option by changing
the 
> #define PSEUDO_DMA line in drivers/scsi/pas16.c to #undef PSEUDO_DMA.
 
> Note that the later should be considered a last resort, because there 
> will be a severe performance degradation.
 
 End of quote from SCSCI HOWTO.
 
 My problem is that even if I knew where to find the patch which is 
 mentioned, that I do not have anything installed apart from the base 
 system. The packages like the GNU CC compiler, are still unavailable to

 me, because they are on the CDROM which has not correctly been
detected.
 
 Please help me! 
 I think what I need is for someone who is maintaining the 
 Debian releases, to incorporate the above mentioned patch in the kernel

 or other part of the base system. Then a new floppy image needs to be 
 produced, I don't know whether this would be a new version of the
rescue
 floppy, i.e. file rsc1440.bin, or one of the base floppies. If I can 
 download this new floppy image I will be able to write it to a floppy 
 using rawrite2, and then I can do the installation again, starting with

 the rescue floppy.
 
>From all the information which I have read in my Media Vision Double 
 Fusion LX sound card + cdrom drive manual and the information in the 
 CDROM HOWTO, the bootprompt HOWTO and the SCSI HOWTO, I feel sure that
I
 should use the bootprompt pas16=0x388,irq and not any other of the 
 bootprompts which are described for other controllers and CDROM drives.
 
 I would appreciate it very much if I could hear in the near future that
a 
 new version of one of the floppy images have been produced, which would

 solve the detection of the CDROM.
 
 My next question is: Which of the Device Driver Modules in the 
 installation setup should I  configure? I have so far had no success in

 configuring any of them.
 
 Last question: in the dselect /access step for installing from a CDROM
I
 am asked to mention the block device driver. I have tried all kinds of 
 things, such as /dev/sbpcd0, /dev/sjcd /dev/scd0 etc, but nothing has 
 worked so far. What should I enter here, assuming that my CDROM has
been
 correctly detected through the bootprompt?
 
 I hope I will soon be able to continue the installation of my new
Debian
 Linux distribution!
 
 Yours,
 
 Martien de Groot
 e-mail: martien_de_groot@compuserve.com
 


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