On 10 Sep 2003 13:18:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. > I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- > > My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film > scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. > > Under MD9.0, there was a query "Do you have disk/scsi?" when > Upgrade-ing in Expert Mode, that allowed me to select the Adaptec > Host Adapter aha152x, insert appropriate parameters, and the Canon > scanner was recognised (I couldn't use it, due to lack of stable > drivers, but that's another story). After that, the SCSI device was > recognised automatically on boot-up. > > However under 9.1, Expert install doesn't recognise the SCSI card or > provide any means of getting it incorporated manually, as far as I > can see. > Once the system is up, > "modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,.........." > etc.on the CLI gets the SCSI card and scanner recognised and MCC > Scannerdrake gets the CanoScan onto the scanner database. But it's > all lost when I power down - which I have to do frequently for some > unavoidable dual-booting with Win$. It's a real PITA.:-( > > Is there something I'm missing during Expert install? Or is there > some way of incorporating the modprobe, etc.into boot-up? > > > I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with My /etc/modules.conf contains this line: probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x ide-scsi > "depmod -a", lilo.conf ansd running /sbin/lilo, putting stuff into > /etc/rc.d/rc.local > I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems > referred to kernel problems around 1998,Installation gave essentially > the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, and got me > unfortunately, no further forward. > > > TIA > > DougB > > > > >
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