>Hi all gurus, >I've been working on Redhat 6.2 kernel 2.4.2 and when I installed a Adaptec >AHA 2490 SCSI card and connected a HP surestore DAT tape drive at the other >end. The card is recognised by the CMOS but when I type in dmesg I dont see >any mention to the tape drive. >I'm relatively new to the Linux world , I'd appreciate if any of you gurus >can help me out of this dead end. >The output of dmesg is as follows: > ># dmesg | more >Linux version 2.4.2 (root@desktop) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux >(egc >s-1.1.2 release)) #3 SMP Fri Nov 2 16:06:35 CST 2001 >BIOS-provided physical RAM map: >BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) >BIOS-e820: 0000000000000800 @ 000000000009f800 (reserved) >BIOS-e820: 0000000000015400 @ 00000000000eac00 (reserved) >BIOS-e820: 0000000013f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) >BIOS-e820: 0000000000080000 @ 00000000fff80000 (reserved) >Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes. >Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes. >Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes. >Scan SMP from c009f800 for 4096 bytes. >On node 0 totalpages: 81920 >zone(0): 4096 pages. >zone(1): 77824 pages. >zone(2): 0 pages. >mapped APIC to ffffe000 (01556000) >Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=2.4.2 ro root=301 >Initializing CPU#0 >Detected 347.667 MHz processor. >Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 >Calibrating delay loop... 693.04 BogoMIPS >Memory: 320208k/327680k available (819k kernel code, 7084k reserved, 298k >data, >200k init, 0k highmem) >Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) >Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) >Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) >Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) >CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 >CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K >CPU: L2 cache: 512K >Intel machine check architecture supported. >Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. >CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 >CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 >CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 >Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. >Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. >POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX >mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel >CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 >CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K >CPU: L2 cache: 512K >Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. >CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 >CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 >CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 >CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 >per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1463.42 usecs. >SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. >Setting commenced=1, go go go >PCI: Using configuration type 1 >PCI: Probing PCI hardware >Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent >PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0 >Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. >isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... >isapnp: Card 'AZT1008 PnP SOUND DEVICE' >isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total >Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 >Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 >Starting kswapd v1.8 >pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured >block: queued sectors max/low 212418kB/81346kB, 640 slots per queue >Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 >ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx >PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 >PIIX4: chipset revision 1 >PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio >hda: WDC WD200BB-00CAA0, ATA DISK drive >hdc: CD-532E-B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 >ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 >hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2586/240/63, UDMA(33) >Partition check: >hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M >FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 >Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ >SERIAL_PCI >ISA >PNP enabled >ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A >NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 >IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP >IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes >TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) >NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed >Adding Swap: 536720k swap-space (priority -1) >Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.01, 16:09:53 Nov 2 2001 >PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0 >PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:04.2 >3c59x.c:LK1.1.12 06 Jan 2000 Donald Becker and others. >http://www.scyld.com/net >work/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $ >See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt >eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xfc00, 00:50:da:06:e6:af, IRQ >11 > product code 'XE' rev 00.9 date 07-17-99 > 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. > MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d. > Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. >eth0: using NWAY autonegotiation >Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). >Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d >Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.01, 16:09:53 Nov 2 2001 >hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA >Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 >VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) >ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 >ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A > >Thanks, > >Peram > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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