From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor) Subject: Re: Do VLB cards work?:ATI Graphics Plus and Ultrastor 34F???? Date: 1 Apr 1993 20:01:55 GMT
In article <C4sMr9.726@acsu.buffalo.edu> dongkim@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dong Seong Kim) writes:
>In article <1pbg7hINN26a@tamsun.tamu.edu> n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor) writes:
>>As of 99.7, the UltraStor 34F is supported, thanks to Dave Gentzel; H.J. Lu's
>>bootable rootdisk (available at finer ftp sites near you) has the 34F support
>>built in, but as far as I know SLS has yet to be upgraded from 99.6.
>>
>>Scott Taylor
>>n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu
>
>That's what I heard. But, I cannot make my Ultrastor 34F to recognize my
>IBM and Quantum SCSI drives. I used H.J. Lu's bootable rootdisk of 99.7.
>
Does Linux recognize the existence of your 34F at all? During the boot
sequence, the UltraStor driver should say something along the lines of
UltraStor 14F scatter/gather enabled; using 16 SG lists.
UltraStor: Found 14F/34F at port XXXX using IRQ XXXX
1 hosts detected.
If you don't see anything like this (this may not be exact, I'm pulling
it off the top of my head), the UltraStor driver isn't finding your
34F.
If Linux cannot find the 34F, chances are good that it's because you have
the "Mailbox I/O Port Base Address" set to 330H (the default); the Accent
serial driver probes this port and hangs the adapter. The fix is to
change the I/O port base address to 340H by setting the proper jumpers.
If this isn't in an FAQ somewhere, it probably should be; IMHO, it's the
"Number 1 Cause Of UltraStor 14F/34F adapters not working with Linux".
If Linux does find your adapter, but doesn't recognize the attached disks,
then I don't know what the problem is, but it may be a hardware incompatibility
somewhere; it's amazing how much stuff "works with DOS" but crashes and
burns under Linux (take my brand-new Conner 213 MB SCSI disk- please!).
>Is there anybody who actually run it off Ultrastor 34F?
I don't have a 34F (I have its ISA-based brother, the 14F), but I have
received numerous reports of people using the 34F just fine under Linux.
Scott TayloR
n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu