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- From: wong060@cs.cuhk.hk (Lewis S.H. Wong)
- Subject: Re: Support for DTC-3192 SCSI adapter? It worked before...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.084504.4135@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
- References: <1992Dec24.114231.2789@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:45:04 GMT
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- ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
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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
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- >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
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- Well, you must choose Adaptec 1542 host adapter when you "make config".
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- Lewis
- (wong060@cs.cuhk.hk)
- >New Windsor Associates L.P
- >ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu or ghod@drycas.bitnet
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