Re: Can't get a kernel to recognize my Asus PCI-SC875 scsi card
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Pierre Blanchet wrote:
: "GDM" == G Dale Miller <gdmiller@wave.home.com> writes:
:
:
: GDM> I am trying to build a kernel with only the options I want now that I
: GDM> have hamm
: GDM> installed again. The boot floppy made from this install recognizes and
: GDM> uses the
: GDM> ASUS SC875 (Symbiosor NCR) scsi card that I have no problem but when I
: GDM> build my own kernel it won't recognize it.
:
: GDM> I am trying to build from the kernel-source-2.0.33 package in hamm
: GDM> and am choosing the ncr53c7xx,8xx option for my scsi card which I
: GDM> thought should work. Am I choosing the wrong card or missing some sort
: GDM> of option that is included in the boot disks?
:
: There are two drivers for the NCR 53c8xx SCSI card. You should not
: choose nc53c7xx,8xx but the BSD driver (ncr53c8xx), which possibly
: didn't show up or was grayed if you have selected nc53c7xx,8xx.
: It's faster and works very fine with the SC875.
Just to second this - the Symbios 875 will NOT work with the
ncr53c75xx,8xx driver, even though it seems like it should. What's
worse, if you choose that driver, `make config' does not give you the
option to choose the ncr53c8xx driver instead, so you night never
realise it exists. I struggled with this for about a day :)
Perhaps this should be noted in the driver description?
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