Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:14:06PM +0000, Anthony Price wrote: > >> I have an LFS build on a partition on a SCSI disk. The Adapter is SCSI >> 29320A. >> SCSI support is enabled in the Kernel >> >> Ubuntu can see the SCSI disk partitions so the disk and / or the adapter >> are supported. >> A copy of the installation on a PATA drive boots on another machine, so >> the build is OK. >> >> Adaptec's documentation doesn't tell me much and the binary drivers that >> come with it are intended for RedHat, SuSE, etc. >> >> I downloaded a tgz from the Adaptec site and unpacked it. It contains >> readme files which tell me nothing that applies to my situation. >> >> There is a Makefile, but running make produces an error message: >> >> "make: *** No rule to make target `/aic7xxx_seq.h', needed by >> `/aic7xxx_core.o'. Stop." >> >> I am out of my depth here, so any tips or suggestions would be welcome. >> >> > aic7xxx has been in the kernel for a very long time, so no need for > out-of-tree drivers. > > In menuconfig, > Device Drivers | SCSI device support | SCSI low level drivers | > Adaptec AIC7xxx Fast -> U160 Support > > Avoid the old AIC7xxx driver with any kernel from the last 2 or 3 > years, unless you have a special need for it. > > ĸen > That did it! I had fundamentally misunderstood how the menuconfig interface works and missed the SCSI drivers as a result. We live & learn!
In the course of my flounderings I also found a good how-to on modules here: http://linuxjunkies.org/html/Module-HOWTO.html#AEN29 Thanks. Anthony. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
