From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: Sysquest and Linux Date: 14 Jul 1992 01:12:31 GMT
In article <1992Jul13.115230.155@athena.mit.edu> jstump@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>Is there anyone out there who is running Linux with a Syquest Removable
>media drive? I can't get mine to work.
>
>Here's my setup:
> 486DX
> 8 MB RAM
> Seagate ST01 SCSI controller
> 40MB Syquest drive
> 120MB IDE driver
> MCC 0.96c
>
>I have jumpered the ST01 board properly to generate interrupts, and I have
>turned off internal and external caching in my 486 via the CMOS, but when
>Linux boots up he: acknowledges the host adapter and always reports 0 drives
>and 0 tapes. I've tried it both with a cartridge inserted and spinning, and
>without. Still no luck. Any attempts to access the drive get read errors with
>no drive LED activity.
>
>Anyone got any clues? Pre-thanks to all.
A not to any one having SCSI problems wth the "stock" Linux distribution :
There are newer versions of the SCSI drivers available, which support
more hardware, and have fixed most of the problems present in the
SCSI drivers in the "stock" distribution.
They are available in both source, and binary form (for a .96b pl 2
kernel) from headrest.woz.colorado.edu:/pub/linux -
scsi* is the latest version of the source.
vmunix* is the bootable kernel
If after trying the newer SCSI drivers, you are still experiencing
problems, I suggest compiling scsi.c and seagate.c with debugging
enabled and seeing where the INQUIRY command fails.