Very Computer

>   After upgrading to RH 6.1 several things that I'd taken for granted, like
> the parallel port, sound card, and scsi controller suddenly stopped working.
> With the help of a friend who knows about such things I was able to
> resurrect the sound card and parallel port, but he's run out of ideas on the
> SCSI adapter, so I'm going to bother you folks with it.
>   It's an elderly Adaptec AHA1542.  My friend's suggestion was to add
>   "alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542"
>   to my /etc/conf.modules file.  Tried that, but dmesg tells me that I have
> zero host adapters.  This is all very weird, because I was able to get my
> ATAPI CD burner to set up properly after the fact (after beating KUDZU over
> the head with a very heavy stick).  So I have a 'fake' SCSI host, but no
> real ones.
>   So, if anyone has an Adapted AHA 1542 running properly under RedHat 6.1,
> I'd *really* like to know how you did it.
>   Yes, I know I should just upgrade my elderly card, but it is (or was)
> sufficient for my uses, as most of my devices are IDE.

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> Mike Graham                 | Metalworker by trade
> mikegraham at sprint dot ca | Rancher by choice
> Caledon, Ontario, Canada    | Weird by nature
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