Re: [SLUG] aic7xxx scsi module

[Ashley Maher <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Chubb wrote:

> > > > > > "Ashley" == Ashley Maher <slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> Ashley> Peter Chubb wrote:
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> > > What does lspci tell you?  Your module isn't finding the card.
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> Ashley> 00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2
> Ashley> 00:0c.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7896U2/7897U2
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> This says you have *two* adaptec scsi controllers in your system.
> When you boot, does the Adaptec BIOS tell you anything?  (You should
> see something like, `Hit ^A for SCSIselect' then output of a scan of
> what devices are on your SCSI bus, before Linux gets to boot).
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> What does dmesg tell you?
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> I'm afraid it's been a *very* long time since I've used a 2.4 system,
> so there's limited info I can give you.
>  
Thanks Peter,

A mate picked up the standard kernel had the aic module in it. Duh.

When I kicked this system up, I finally got a backup tape that wasn't 
had it.

So I checked the rc.local and found dpt_i2o then I remembered 4 years 
ago building this thing and that took me ages to find. How the hell 
you're supposed to know the aic7xxx module finds the card, but you need 
the dpt_i2o module to see it as a raid I cann't remember what I did 4 
years ago, or if I hadn't access to my original rc.local what I would 
have done to find it agin.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Ashley
PS Posting to the list in teh hope it helps somebody else one day.