SCSI needs

[Rudi Engelbertink]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:47:45PM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 09:53, Rudi wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:04:27AM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:58, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> > > > FC1 uptodate with yum.
> > > > 
> > > > I have to move a scsi drive to a system because the system that it is on
> > > > is old and is failing...  Problem is that I don't have a SCSI card in
> > > > any of my other systems.  I went looking in my ole' bin of computer
> > > > cards and found 2 IDE SCSI cards:
> > > > 
> > > >   Adaptec AHA-1520A
> > > >   Adaptec AHA-1540CF
> > > > 
> > > > The 1520 has jumpers on it and I have no idea what they are, but the
> > > > 1540 has a toggle switch block with a lable on the back of the card
> > > > documenting the toggles.  Great...
> > > > 
> > > > But I was wondering should I even try either of these or buy (or search
> > > > for) another version.  I'm running out of time with the failing system
> > > > and kind of want to resolve this quicker.  Any suggestions to how to
> > > > setup the 1540 or a better course of action?
> > As you already stated, the 154x is an old ISA card and is still supported by FC1
> > 
> > The setup of the card is quit simple, select an I/O port and a BIOS address 
> > not in use. The bios address is only neccesary if want to boot from the drive.
> > 
> > sw5 is only used if a floppydrive is connected (1542) so that's a don't care.
> > 
> > If you only connect 1 disk drive, termination should be enabled on the controller
> > as well on the drive.  
> > 
> > If you want to use a slightly more modern card you could go for a ncr/symbios
> > 53c810 it's a cheap and reliable card.
> 
> Thanks for the reply!  I am connecting to only one device (a 1GB Jazz
> Drive) that I will not be booting from.  It is used as a backup device
> (I have lots of the removable drives). so performance isn't an issue
> either.
> 
> So it sound like I just need to put the card in and load up the driver. 
> Which driver is it?  
It' the aha154x ad you can just add 'alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx' to the
/etc/modules.conf or to the /etc/modprobe.conf if you are using a 2.6 kernel

Remember it is a ISA card and only supported by older motherboard.

> 
> Then I can load up the iomega linux rpm and I should be good to go.
> 
> If that doesn't work I will go the route of ncr/symbios 53c810

RGDS Rudi.
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