On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 10:03, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:32, Sharrea wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > > I have an Adaptec scsi card for my Microtek E6 scanner which is not > > > presently being used with my current MDK9.0. It took me _weeks_ to find > > > information on setting it up with Mandrake - MDK 8.1 at the time. Anyway, > > > here's the website that provided the information: > > > > > > http://www.mir.com/mtek/ava-hints.html > > > > > > At the time I added the following line to /etc/modules.conf: > > > options aha152x aha152x=0x140,9 > > > > Aha! I wondered how to get the parameters in > > > > > > > and in /etc/lilo.conf > > > append="aha152x=0x140,9" > > > > > > with "140" being the base I/O address (140h) and "9" being the IRQ which I > > > set manually in BIOS. > > > > > > So perhaps you need to edit your lilo.conf. HTH. > > > > I'll try that and see how it fares. > > Many thanks also for the URL, > > > > DougB > > > Sharrea > > Progress report after some frustrating fiddling about: > > 1) added the lines to modules.conf and lilo.conf. Still no sign of SCSI > card on re-boot. > > 2) Ran /sbin/lilo (with edited versions of modules.conf and lilo.conf as > above)to get changes into lilo - error message "Error at line ... " when > "append" line inserted at the end of lilo.conf. Tried positioning append > line in the "image" section for "linux" - error message "duplicate > append lines....". Re-booted just the same. No sign of SCSI card. > only one append line per boot stanza but options can be 'stacked'.
> 3) Used the Twiki SCSI instructions, except that I had no need of jumper > setting, etc. as this had already been done a long time ago. > Comments: > > (a) "find..." in my MD9.1 the aha152x module is in > .../kernel/drivers/scsi/ not ...kernel/drivers/ > > > (b) To instal the card for a single session, > modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,10 on its own is sufficient > cat /proc/scsi/scsi checks the scanner device is recognised > > In my system, the additional changes to modules.conf and lilo.conf > *DON'T* preserve the installation after power down (In fact, the > lilo.conf changes are flagged as error). > > However, all these problems may be particular to *MD9.1*, because with > 9.0 I found that the SCSI card could be installed directly (without any > need for editing files, etc) during the original installation of 9.0, so > long as that was done in expert mode. > > An absolute bugger! :-(((( > > Off to try Stephen's suggestions. > > DougB > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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