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Installing Linux with AHA 2940W SCSI card

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Bruno Lepine

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Aug 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/1/96
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Anybody has an idea on how to install Linux on a new computer with SCSI
adapter Adaptec AHA 2940W ? I have a SCSI CD-Rom and 4.2 G Hard disk
connected to it, and the provided slakware 2.0 boot disks do not recognize
the SCSI adapter properly.

Thanks,


Bruno Lepine <ble...@qbc.clic.net>

Andrej Zimsek

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Aug 2, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/2/96
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If you don't have right kernel either you can pach kernel for 2940
support or you can use http://linux.early.com/linux/config.html
to configure your own linux kernel


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Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo

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Aug 3, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/3/96
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"Bruno Lepine" <ble...@qbc.clic.net> wrote:
> Anybody has an idea on how to install Linux on a new computer with SCSI
> adapter Adaptec AHA 2940W ? I have a SCSI CD-Rom and 4.2 G Hard disk
> connected to it, and the provided slakware 2.0 boot disks do not recognize
> the SCSI adapter properly.

Easist solution is to look for package which Linux kernel is 1.3 or
newer. (I know that Linux 1.2.13 on Slackware 3.0 is suppose to
recognize Adaptec 294x cards, but it failed miserable with my
2944). At least one of the alternative solutions is to loan IDE disk
from somewhere. You plug that one into your system, install Slackware
into that one. Do necessary upgradge (gcc, libc, kernel, binutils) so
that you can compile newer kernel (1.3.x or 2.0.x). Once you have
successful (possible limited) installation on IDE drive, you can
install system into SCSI disk.

There are number of steps into that operation, but each step is
logical and that IDE drive doesn't have to be big (I used 100 MB disk
in my installation).

Good luck.
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Joe Sloan

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Aug 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/6/96
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In article <01bb7feb$7a498020$7845...@blepine.qbc.clic.net>,

Bruno Lepine <ble...@qbc.clic.net> wrote:
>Anybody has an idea on how to install Linux on a new computer with SCSI
>adapter Adaptec AHA 2940W ? I have a SCSI CD-Rom and 4.2 G Hard disk
>connected to it, and the provided slakware 2.0 boot disks do not recognize
>the SCSI adapter properly.

Slackware 2.0??

Are you preparing a museum piece or something?

Do yourself a favor and start with at least Slackware 3.0!
You'll need the updated aic-78xx boot disk, but trust me, it works:

From my system:

(ttyp0): bash: 386 > uname -a
Linux jobe 2.0.11 #2 Mon Aug 5 09:43:20 PDT 1996 i586

(ttyp0): bash: 394 > cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: Quantum Model: XP32150W Rev: L912
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: TANDBERG Model: TDC 4200 Rev: =07:
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:222 Rev: 3.0i
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02


(ttyp0): bash: 386 > cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 3.2/3.1/3.0

Compile Options:
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_LUN : 2
AIC7XXX_TWIN_SUPPORT : Enabled
AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Disabled
AIC7XXX_SHARE_IRQS : Enabled
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled

Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: AHA-2940 Ultra
(AIC-788x chipset)
Host Bus: Wide
Base IO: 0x6000
IRQ: 11
SCB: 3 (16)
Interrupts: 28685
Serial EEPROM: True
Extended Translation: Enabled
SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
Ultra SCSI: Disabled
Target Disconnect: Enabled

jjs

David Ford

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Aug 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/6/96
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On 1 Aug 1996 20:51:19 GMT, "Bruno Lepine" <ble...@qbc.clic.net>
wrote:

>Anybody has an idea on how to install Linux on a new computer with SCSI
>adapter Adaptec AHA 2940W ? I have a SCSI CD-Rom and 4.2 G Hard disk
>connected to it, and the provided slakware 2.0 boot disks do not recognize
>the SCSI adapter properly.

You need to install with the april '96 release (slackware 3.0) or get
boot/root install images from ftp.cdrom.com or sunsite.unc.edu

David

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Robert Komanec

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Aug 7, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/7/96
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David Ford wrote:
>
> On 1 Aug 1996 20:51:19 GMT, "Bruno Lepine" <ble...@qbc.clic.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Anybody has an idea on how to install Linux on a new computer with SCSI
> >adapter Adaptec AHA 2940W ? I have a SCSI CD-Rom and 4.2 G Hard disk
> >connected to it, and the provided slakware 2.0 boot disks do not recognize
> >the SCSI adapter properly.
>
> You need to install with the april '96 release (slackware 3.0) or get
> boot/root install images from ftp.cdrom.com or sunsite.unc.edu
>

Questions about AHA 2940 all the time, plus Vertex 3Com cards:
I've both in my system, and I installed DEBIAN on the first attempt!


Robert Komanec running linux
recommended e-mail kom...@umel.fee.vutbr.cz

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