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Adaptec 2742T: Anything at all???

Adaptec 2742T: Anything at all???

Post by James P Gurgan » Fri, 03 Jun 1994 04:57:20



I have an Adaptec 2742T controller a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM, a 340 meg hard
drive and soon, a 230 MB MO drive.

Can I do anything with Linux at all?  Forgive my possible ignorance about
this.  I've heard no AIC-7770 drivers exist yet.  Will Linux use BIOS
calls?  DOS doesn't need drivers unless I want to use the CD-ROM, etc,
right?

Basically, can I install Linux?  And if so, will I be able to use the
CD-ROM or MO?  I'm willing to sacrifice the utility of those devices if I
can at least get Linux running.

Thanks for any info!

--
James Gurganus

 
 
 
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Adaptec 2742T: Anything at all???

Post by David F » Fri, 03 Jun 1994 08:42:45


Quote:James P Gurganus writes:

] I have an Adaptec 2742T controller a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM, a 340 meg hard
] drive and soon, a 230 MB MO drive.
]
] Can I do anything with Linux at all?

If your 340 Meg hard drive is IDE, yes.  Otherwise, no.
--
David Fox                                               xoF divaD
NYU Media Research Lab                     baL hcraeseR aideM UYN

 
 
 
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1. Adaptec 2742T bootdisk

This is my first post to comp.os.linux.help.  I've been following along
with the updates to the 2742T driver and their subsequent bootdisks,
however, I still can't get anything to work.  The bootdisk with version 3
of the driver would hang when it detected the card and its settings.
The bootdisk with version 4 detects my card, all the settings, but, it
doesn't detect any hard drive devices.  During bootup it says the card's
BIOS is successfully installed, so that's not the problem.

I have a 340Mb Seagate Fast-SCSI harddrive on channel A.  I have a
Toshiba 3401 and a Fujitsu DynaMO 230 on Channel B.  I know channel B
is supposed to be ignored, but I tried unplugging them and it still
didn't work.

Anyway, does anybody have any suggestions?  I haven't been having much
luck making a bootdisk on another machine.  I can compile the kernel,
but my bootdisk attempts don't boot. =)

If someone could send me some friendly step-by-step instructions on
making a slackware bootdisk with a custom kernel, I'd greatly appreciate
it.  I tried following the instructions in the slackware distribution, but
I'm still doing something wrong.  I'm not a UNIX newbie, but I'm not
a kernel-programmer either. 8)

I'd REALLY like to get Linux installed on this machine...


Thanks...

--
James Gurganus

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