Re: aic6260, cdrom & linux
thanks hamish. tried your settings and still no joy. this one's got me
stumped. anybody else have a suggestion? is there an optimal place to
put 'append' lines in lilo.conf?
-c-
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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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