Recognizing old scsi controller/disk

["Michael B. Taylor" <mtaylor@mapleloop.rmt.utk.edu>]

I am unable to get an old scsi disk recognized during installation, and
would appreciate help.

I am trying to install Debian on a rather old system with a Future Domain
TMC830 scsi controller.  From information obtained from Adaptec's (they
bought Future Domain) web site, I have determined that the card is
jumpered for memory address of CA000-C8FFF, and an interupt of IRQ 5. 
This is the default setup for the card.  This card/disk boots up DOS just
fine.

I boot the system using a Debian 1.3 rescue disk.  At the boot prompt, I
type:

tmc830=0xca00,5

per the help file (f5 key) on the rescue disk.  I have also tried more and
fewer trailing zeros in the memory address.  The system responds with:

Could not find kernel image:  tmc830=0.xca

I am not trying to point to a kernel image with the boot parameter, I am
just trying to get it to recognize the scsi hardware.

I have installed Debian on an IDE drive on this system with no problems.  

I am out of ideas.  Yours would be greatly appreciated.

Mike Taylor



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