[KLUG Members] SCSI & RH7.2

[Robert Pfeiffer]

Kudzu didn't find it (its an isa plug and pray board).  I did manage to 
get as far a getting a the scsi board working.  I'm working with an old 
sym53c416 compatible SCSI board that was shipped with my HP photosmart 
scanner.  (Yeah its old and crappy, but it does B&W, something that my 
Nikon doesn't do well).


If I do a modprobe sym53c416 and let that go, I get nothing. Presumably, 
I need to load the general scsi as well as the driver.

What seems to work is this:

modprobe sg
modprobe sym53c416

So far so good.  Now.  I have to do this everytime I reboot. Also unless 
I'm root I can't access the scanner. I wanted to auto load the driver 
each time.  So I did the following:

/etc/modules.conf

Added

alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c416

no go.  Am I missing something? Thoughts? Also what might I check in the 
file permission for /dev/sga that would prevent a user from seeing sga?

Thanks
Robert Pfeiffer

Adam Williams wrote:

>>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
>>
> 
> Try "modprobe 53c416; dmesg", what do you see?
> 
> You should see something very roughly like-
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/18/0
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Ext-50 YES)
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0
>        <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
> blah ... blah.... blah...
> 
> Also 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'  You should see it there, who knows, it might
> already be there.
> 
> Or try running 'kudzu' as root?  It might do all the work for you.
> 
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