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- From: ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Support for DTC-3192 SCSI adapter? It worked before...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.114231.2789@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 06:42:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: drycas.1992Dec24.114231.2789
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- Season's greetings:
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- (Note: I tried posting this earlier, but my newsreader was having problems so
- I don't know if it got out.)
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- I have a problem I'm hoping someone can help me resolve. I've been trying to
- install Linux 0.99 on a freind's computer. This machine is a 486 33Mhz with
- 16 Megs RAM and a Data Technology Corp. DTC3192 SCSI host adapter with a
- Seagate ST3283N drive (250 megs). The problem is that while the kernel on the
- a1 SLS distributution disk seems to correctly recognize his SCSI set up, 0.99
- doesn't. For that matter, neither did 0.98 pl5. I've noticed in the kernel
- sources that support for a number of different adapters is included, but I'm
- wondering if they're all compiled into the standard setup.
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- What I did for now was to create a modified version of the a1 disk and use that
- as the system boot disk instead of the one generated by the SLS doinstall
- script. This is enough to get the system running for now, but the a1 kernel
- doesn't have TCP/IP, which means the current X distribution won't work.
- Does anyone know the difference between the a1 kernel and 0.99 that's
- responsible for this SCSI card/disk combination not working?
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- Also, on a related note, I ran into a small snag while trying to compile a new
- kernel on his system. irq.c tries to include a file called linux/interrupts.h
- which seems to be missing. I have it on my system at home, but I suspect this
- is because I had it left over from when I installed the header files from
- 0.98 pl5. Can anyone verify that this file is missing from SLS? Better still,
- does anyone know where it can be found on the net? Any help or comments would
- be greatly appreciated.
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- -=Bill Paul
- Assistant System Administrator
- New Windsor Associates L.P
- ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu or ghod@drycas.bitnet
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