by NW>I currently installed an Adaptec 2842 VL bus SCSI adapter in my compu
NW>I plan to use this adapter for a NEC 4XE CD-ROM drive right now, and
NW>maybe a SCSI-II drive later. Anyway, I just installed kernel 1.1.68,
NW>which has the 2842 driver. When Linux boots it says
NW>
NW> SCSI: 0 hosts
NW>
NW>or something like that, but it's not getting detected. The BIOS on
NW>Adaptec card is currently turned off, since I don't have a SCSI hard
NW>I tried giving LILO command line parameters to force detection of the
NW>adapter, but that didn't work. I've looked through the SCSI and CD-R
NW>howtos with no luck. The drive and card worked fine under DOS (until
I have exactly the same problem. However, I have my hard drive
running off the card, which means that Linux also doesn't pick
up my hard drive.
The hard drive is a Seagate ST31200N, but I don't think this is
relevant, as the problem appears to be with the host adapter.
The BIOS on my card is enabled, and it also uses the default values.
I would be very grateful if you could forward any answers you get to
Thanx
Thomas Roets
+27-11-782-5482
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