🚀 go-pugleaf

daveb@iinet.net.au (David R Brooks) writes:

>trd@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Tyson Richard DOWD) wrote:

>:I've recently bought a CD writer, which comes with a Adaptec 1520B ISA
>:SCSI interface. It appears to be Plug-n-play (but it's ISA), and works
>:Ok under Win95, (to the extent that anything works under Win95).
>:
>:I can't seem to get Linux (Debian system, 2.0.30 kernel) to work with
>:it.
>[snip]

> I had the same problem with Red Hat Linux (I don't suppose Debian is
>that different). Even Red Hat themselves couldn't solve it. Finally
>(suggested by a Linux buddy) I did a kernel re-make, with the SCSI
>stuff hard-linked in (ie not dynamic-loaded via RPM - don't know what
>the Debian equivalent is of that). It now works fine (to read anyway:
>I haven't tried writing under Linux yet).

Just for closure, I actually got this working. The trick was not to
use isapnp to do isolation, grab the settings that Win95 was using, and

insmod scsi_mod
insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,12 

(or whatever), and it worked fine.

Of course, I figured this out about 1/2 hour after posting to news. The
moral is - post to news as early as possible.