From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: ST01 problems (Was: help with Maxtor M7080S and ST01. Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 07:03:45 GMT
In article <1992Aug2.172212.14643@htsa.aha.nl> hanst@htsa.aha.nl (Hans Trompert) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.133634.1897@athena.mit.edu> caffrey@salem.salem.ge.com writes:
>>I just received a new Maxtor M7080S scsi disk and am unable to
>>get it to work. I am using an ST01 controller which I have been
>>using for the past few months with a seagate ST157N with no problems
>>( except that it was slow ).
>>
>>During Boot up the ST01 reports that it finds a disk, but linux
>>reports 0 Disks 0 tapes total.
>
>I have the same kind of problem with a ST01 controller, only with
>two other disks: a Quantum Pro 80S and a Micopolis (I cann't remember
>the type right now). Under MSDOS I'm able to use both disk, but
>when booting Linux 0.96c-pl2 it does detect the controller but reports
>it cann't find any disks (or tapes for that matter).
1. GET THE SCSI DRIVERS FROM headrest.woz.colorado.edu. They
fix subtle bugs, and not so subtl bugs.
Note that these are interrupt driven, and you MUST jumper the board
for IRQ5.
2. If you still have a problem, post to the news group, mail me,
or the SCSI channel of Linux-activists.
>I toke a look at the autodetect-code in scsi.c, and even enabled some
>debug output, but couldn't find anything wrong (at first sight).
>
Play with the SELECTION timeout. It's controlled in the seagate.h file.
>I'm really stuck right now. Is there anybody out there who has any
>idae what is going wrong ? Every bit of information is welcom !
>
>Regards,
> Hans Trompert (hanst@htsa.aha.nl).
>