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

My_SeaWolf <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:02:15 +0300
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How do I check this?

Ian Firla wrote:
> 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,
>>SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer,
>>Registered Linux User #305894,
>>Mozilla Mail Handler on Red Hat Linux 7.1 (SeaWolf),
>>Athens, GREECE,
>>cell-phone: +306946462857,
>>e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
>>
>>
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Panos Platon Tsapralis,
SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer,
Registered Linux User #305894,
Mozilla Mail Handler on Red Hat Linux 7.1 (SeaWolf),
Athens, GREECE,
cell-phone: +306946462857,
e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]