thanks hamish. tried your settings and still no joy. this one's got me stumped. anybody else have a suggestion? is there an optimal place to put 'append' lines in lilo.conf?
-c- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:59:28PM -0400, Chea Prince wrote: > > did you ever get linux to see your cdrom? i have an onboard aic 6260 > > scsi chip on an old zeos > > gosling motherboard that linux refuses to recognize. the bios can be > > set to autodetect scsi and i'ved tried bios SCSI ENABLED--no suucess > > with sutoprobe. disabled bios and forced detection using > > append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,0" & append="aic6260=0x340,11,7,1,0". no > > joy. win95 has no problem > > accessing the drive with SCSI ENABLED via bios. seems to be a linux > > thing. trying desperately > > to dump microsoft but snags like this are slowing me down. > > > > any ideas? anybody? btw, cdrom is a NEC. > > Hmmm, I think this is the same as card I have (VLB, with floppy, IDE, > parallel/serial & SCSI all on board). To get it running with Linux, > I used > > aha152x=0x340,11,7,0,0 > > I think the 1->0 disables disconnect or similar. I used an NEC CD-ROM > drive too and it worked. > > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 > CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org > ========================================================================== The man PUBLIC DOMAIN, INC. Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: P.O. Box 8899-0899 Power, like a desolating pestilence, Atlanta, GA 30306 Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, VOX: 404.373.0980 Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, FAX: 404.378.3607 Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A mechanised automaton. --Percy Bysshe Shelley ========================================================================= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]