[KLUG Members] SCSI, Tape drives, and EZ-flyer.

[adam]

Hey everyone.

I've just installed an old ISA SCSI AHA-1542, a conner peripherals tape
drive, and a seagate Ez-flyer 230 MB drive.  The tape drive is internal, and
the ez-flyer is external.

Anyway, my situation comes in with trying to "insmod" the scsi card module.
I have set things in the kernel correctly: enabled scsi, generic scsi
support, the aha1542, blah blah blah.  I've made the kernel, etc. However,
when I try to insmod the aha1542 module, it fires up the tape drive a bit,
but sits there. For days.   It's assigning interrupts and the dma, but I
can't do much else.  a check of /proc/scsi/aha1542 shows one entry: 1   .
that's it.  And if I cat it, it says the driver does not yet support the
proc-fs.  Anyway, I'm a bit confused.  Compiling it into the kernel renders
the machine unbootable(it scans the SCSI bus, finds the tape drive, and
hangs indefinately), but using insmod doesn't do much either (and neither
does modprobe).  Doing a insmod -v -p shows some output, then spits me to a
prompt as if there aren't any errors.  However, taking away the -p (probe
only) again, makes the machine hang (it still functions, but it hangs
indefinately at the insmod on that shell).
I'm running slack 8 with the 2.4.6 kernel, and I'm stumped.  I've tried all
I can, and I'm pretty bummed out. Any ideas?

thanks.
Adam Bultman