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Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Landon Humphrey;
LH> I have an adpatec 1542B controller being used for a Python Dat
LH> tape drive. It works fine under windows at 0x230.
LH> RedHat 6.0 does not see the card. I tried parsing parameters of
LH> aha1542=0x230,11,4,5.
LH> thus no effect.
Oh, you've noticed? So did I. In the kernel sources,
drivers/scsi/aha1542.c, change the default addresses from 0x330-0x334 to
0x230-0x234 and recompile.
End of problem. I do it to each new release of the kernel since
2.0.34.
I have no idea why the defaults were so set by Donald Becker, but it
seems that 0x330 is a dead address, even when it is not otherwise in
use, on at least half the systems. Can anyone explain this?
LH> I changed to Io to 0x334 and it works but I need it to be 0x230
LH> so it will and can exist under windows as well.
LH> How do I fix this or how step bystep to rebuild modules etc.
LH> I have edited the aha1542.c file to reflect 0x230, 0x234 but I
LH> do not know what to do from this point.
LH> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Make dep
Make bzImage
cp arch/i386/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.x.x-1 <your version here
make modules
make modules_install
edit lilo.conf to add the new kernel, but do not replace the old
bootfiles just yet.
Give the new kernel an odd name so that you can when it says lilo boot:
give it the name of the new file to see if it will boot. Once it boots,
then you could make it the default image in lilo.conf.
Don't forget to rerun 'lilo -v' anytime you make a change to lilo.conf.
And I probably left something out, my apologies in advance.
Cheers, Gene
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