Re: Adaptec AHA-1480 SCSI PCMCIA card in RH7.1.

You do have scsi support built into the kernel, right?

Ian

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, My_SeaWolf wrote:

> I am trying to get this SCSI card to work in my RH7.1-based system
> (because I have a SCSI CD-RW drive from HP, that I want to use).
>
> When the system boots, I see some messages, which indicate that the card
>   gets recognized from the OS. Also, when I enter KDE Command Center,
> the controller is present in the "Information" tab (PCI & PCMCIA
> sections), as well as the "System" tab ("KDE System Control" section).
>
> However, it is not displayed in the "SCSI" section of the "Information"
> tab of the KDE Command Center and I cannot find any device (/dev/sda*,
> /dev/scd*, etc.) in the "/dev" directory to mount to the "/mnt/cdrom"
> directory. "/dev/cdrom" does not exist and "/dev/scd*", "/dev/sda*" give
> back the message "unknown device" (when used in the "mount" command).
>
> Has anybody used this hardware in RH7.1 before and, if yes, how? I do
> not want to upgrade my RH7.1 partition to a newer version, because I
> mainly use it in order to run some business software, certified for this
> release (I have a separate RH8 partition on the same hard disk drive for
> the rest of my work...).
>
> TIA,
> --
> Panos Platon Tsapralis,
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