Re: Adaptec 1520B.

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From: David R Brooks
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:00

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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).


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