Re: aic6260, cdrom & linux
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:59:28PM -0400, Chea Prince wrote:
> did you ever get linux to see your cdrom? i have an onboard aic 6260
> scsi chip on an old zeos
> gosling motherboard that linux refuses to recognize. the bios can be
> set to autodetect scsi and i'ved tried bios SCSI ENABLED--no suucess
> with sutoprobe. disabled bios and forced detection using
> append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,0" & append="aic6260=0x340,11,7,1,0". no
> joy. win95 has no problem
> accessing the drive with SCSI ENABLED via bios. seems to be a linux
> thing. trying desperately
> to dump microsoft but snags like this are slowing me down.
>
> any ideas? anybody? btw, cdrom is a NEC.
Hmmm, I think this is the same as card I have (VLB, with floppy, IDE,
parallel/serial & SCSI all on board). To get it running with Linux,
I used
aha152x=0x340,11,7,0,0
I think the 1->0 disables disconnect or similar. I used an NEC CD-ROM
drive too and it worked.
Hamish
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