I was able to get an old Adaptec 1522 card and 2G SCSI disk a few years back, which I put into a pentium machine. I had all sorts of problems getting it to work properly. There seemed to be conflicts with the sound card and with the network card. None of the problems jumped out at me and said "here I am", most were worked out by examining the /proc files and by trial-and-error. I was able to get some documentation from Adaptec's web site, and spent a lot of time moving jumpers on the card.
Ultimately this did get me there! At install time, Mandrake didn't auto- sense the card straight away, but when I told it that it was there, it did see it and picked up all the settings properly (eg. IRQ) without me having to tell it explicitly. This route may be worth you trying. Brian. >From: Robert Fargher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Monday 25 February 2002 06:06, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > Hi, > > After adding the alias to modules.conf and running modprobe, I get the > > error ,"can't locate module aha152x".The module does exist,so I guess >the > > card is not being seen.You mentioned using a different card,is there a > > better one that will work with this scanner,same connectors and >everything? > > > > > modprobe aha152x > > > alias aha152x io=0x140,irq=10,id=7 (or) aha152x=0x240,10,7 etc... > > > or in lilo.conf > > > append="aha152x=0x140,11,7 or ... > > I've just gone through a similar situation with an AVA-1505 card. It >uses >ioport 0x340 and irq 10 (or 11, can't remember just now). Try this at the >command line, as root: >modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=10 (try 11 if 10 doesn't work). > > On my AVA-1505 card, the above works and "lsmod" shows that the module >is >loaded. If I then do a "modprobe sr_mod", I get to use my SCSI cdrom. > > I automate the loading of the kernel modules, by putting the two >modprobe >lines as the last two lines in /etc/rc.local. That is the only way I've >managed to get them to work; specifically, they won't work from an initrd. >But I'm going to try the "append="aha152x=....." route next and see what >happens. > > This SCSI card was not picked up by the installer for Mandrake 8.2 beta >2, >nor did the installer allow me to manually configure the card. A >post-install manual configuration is the only way that works. > >-- >Cheers, >Rob > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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