Michael, forgive me if I am just stating the obvious or if I should have missed your point.
> Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. ^^^^^^^^^^^ What does the underlined expression mean? Are there some messages indicating that the devices are recognised? Where from? Do the devices work? What is the exact problem? Assuming nothing works: I'll not cite what you have reported about messages, but the obvious assumption seems - to me - that he does not have the right low level driver either compiled in or as a module. The trouble with the stock kernels is that they lack documentation about what is compiled in and what is not (or am I wrong here?). It is neither entirely clear to me whether your SCSI controller requires the same driver nor that it is _not_ compiled into your kernel. It is only clear you don't have an aic7xxx module. The only remedy I could personally think of would be to compile a kernel from scratch, with the correct driver (well, come to think of it, I think it is principally possible to add a module only, but I suppose you also need a kernel source tree to compile it. But if you can get a binary module somewhere that is compiled for this kernel version, I think it is possible to just load it.). Or does anyone know how to get the .config files for the stock kernels? Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]