[KLUG Members] SCSI & RH7.2

[Adam Bultman]

Gettin my Symbios SCSI card to work in linux was always easy. RH 7.2 ( I
ran it under that for a while) was pretty easy.  IT always autosensed, and
was set up by default. Usually, I re-compile my kernel (if you ask me,
always a good idea), so I compiled it in, and it worked fine.  I use it as
my boot drive currently, when I ran redhat, and when I ran slack on these
drives.

I recommend recompiling your kernel, although having a modular kernel is
pretty swell.  Just include the SCSI card you have, and you will really be
all set (unless the support for the sumbios card is less than perfect in
that kernel version).

If you want some more help, you can always write me personally, and I can
blather on and on for much longer.  I run SCSI on two of my boxes (of
four) and those both run linux.  I imagine I might hook up my 2x SCSI
cdrom drive up with my AHA-1542 eventually on my third box, but that's
low-priority. (I have another SCSI cdrom, but it don't work quite right).

SCSI has been pretty easy recently, and if you have a fast proc running
that symbios card, linux will really scream. IT does on my beehive system,
really.  On my other box, I have an AHA-2930CU, and things are slower, but
still, pretty quick (running on a barracuda).

If you insmod, you theoretically should be fine.



Here's the stuff from my beehive .50 system:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:0a.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 00:0e.0
sym.0.10.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...
sym.0.10.0: setting PCI_COMMAND_INVALIDATE.
sym0: <895> rev 0x2 on pci bus 0 device 10 function 0 irq 15
sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM
sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware.
sym0: SCAN AT BOOT disabled for targets 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15.
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.17a
  Vendor: COMPAQ    Model: BD00921937        Rev: 3B00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST39173LC         Rev: 5702
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sym0:0:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
sym0:8:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
sym0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25.0 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sda: 17773524 512-byte hdwr sectors (9100 MB)
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2
sym0:8: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25.0 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sdb: 17783240 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
 sdb: sdb1


-- 
Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Robert Pfeiffer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install a SYBIOS SYM53c413 SCSI card on a linux RH 7.2
> Kernal 2.4.7-10 box that was setup a while ago. I was under the
> impression that linux now autodetects hardware?  I didn't see a HOWTO
> install a SCSI card to go through.  Just info on the SCSI programming.
>
> I looked under /proc/isapnp and this is the entry for the scsi board.
> I have a 53c416.o under /modules, so I'd assume that it would find the
> right module and loaded it at boot.  I'm used to the conf.modules, which
> I can't find under rh7.2. Any help would be appreciated?
>
> Card 1 'SLI4161:SYM 53C416' PnP version 1.0 Product version 0.1
>    Logical device 0 'SLI4163:Unknown'
>      Supported registers 0x2
>      Device is not active
>      Resources 0
>        Priority preferred
>        Port 0x200-0xffe0, align 0x1f, size 0x20, 16-bit address decoding
>        IRQ 4,5,7,10,11,12,15 High-Edge
>
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