adaptec controller support ? ! ?

[the_knight]

hello,

i have (i think) an adaptec aha1522a ide interface SCSI controller that i'm fiddling with in hopes of using under linux. i've read the scsi-howto, and it says that adaptec uses an aspi interface, of which isn't supported under linux. but on the contrary, the hardware-howto says that several adaptec cards are indeed supported.

in my own experimenting, booting off of an ide-cdrom with the slack7.0cd in it, fdisk nor cfdisk have recognized the disks.

do i have to disable any bioses or add anything before the disks will be recognized?

any hints would be greatly appreciated!thanks!

andrew :cool:

[ashed]

Hey, be glad you have at least that much going for you, I'm stuck with 2 controllers that OSS has zero support for (ARO-1130U2).

Talk about a perfect way to ruin any chances of moving the shop over to Linux/BSD :(

[bdg1983]

Usually if you pass the parameters to the kernel during the boot/install process, you can get the SCSI controller to be detected.

options aha1542 aha1542=0x330,10

replace the first number with the io address of the card and the second with the irq of the drive

This was copied from a support website I use. You may want to check Slack's website for the proper syntax to use during the install.

[the_knight]

tank you tank you tank you!!! :p

[bdg1983]

Your welcome... Thanks for the tongue.

[the_knight]

in reply:
anyhow, i've gotten the card to work, after spending about 2 hours going over the nearly 200-page pdf docs :)
the controller works nicely now, but i found out one of my drives pooped out, boo hoo.
but yeah, thanks, i cant believe i am to the point of using scsi under linux :cool: