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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>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  

Did you terminate your cables?  The "1 entry" makes me wonder if you have both
drives set to the same SCSI ID.  The quickest one will *win*,  although it may
not (probably will not) work.

>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 

What is "some output"?  Does dmesg show anything post your attempt to insert the
module?

>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?

Is this a PCI/ISA machine?  If so have you reserved the DMA/IRQs the card uses
via the BIOS?  (this is an old card and may no PnP well).  Are you *SURE* the
IRQ/DMA/IO isn't conflicting with anything?

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