Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 20:23:59 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: Multiple Problems |
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On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 06:04:01PM +0000, Bruce Korb wrote: > > Hi, > > I have loaded the S.u.S.E. 6.1 distribution. > I have both an IDE and a SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940 controller. > The BIOS can see the controller and identifies the disk just fine. > Linux cannot see it. Supposedly, the aic7xxx driver should > work with it..... Meanwhile, I dual boot by going into the > BIOS and changing the primary boot device from IDE to SCSI and back...
Is the Adaptec controller detected by the kernel? Do you use a kernel with Adaptec driver? Did you try to load it within linuxrc (The proggie on the bootdisk) ?
> Also, I have a relatively new Iomega parport zip drive. > Despite loading the parport driver, neither the imm driver > (which I think is the right one) nor the ppa driver will > load. They complain of the port being busy. There is > nothing on it that I know about. The HOWTOs were not too > helpful. One mentioned that a certain message meant that > SCSI was loaded but could not see anything. I got that > message, but the HOWTO did not say what to do about > it :-(.
Try modprobe parport_pc first and adjust the settings in /proc/parport if necessary
-- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG Linux kernel development; SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395 [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |