Hi Steve,

What two cards are you referring to?  The PCI NIC card
and the ISA SCSI controller card (those are the only
two card in it)?

Also, shouldn't the SCSI card be recognized in the
dmesg even if there are no devices attached?  If it
should, that, I think, would rule out the issue of a
bad cable.

Thanks for the other info, though!

J Silverman
--- Steve Davidson <smd@scshome.net> wrote:
> Manuel,
> 
> I would write down the settings of the first card,
> remove it, and set the
> second card to the those settings.  Reboot the
> system to see if it functions -
>  that will test the second card.  If the card works
> you will remove some of the
> guess work.  This will also allow you to test the
> new card with a known good
> SCSI cable (potentially a big area of problems).
> 
> If you go to the Adaptec Web site you will find the
> information
> you need about configuring this series of
> controllers.  The big things are:
> 
> Port Address (130, 134, 230, 234, 330, 334
> (default))
> DMA Channel (0, 5 (default), 6, 7)
> DMA Xfer Rate (start with 5.0MB/sec)
> IRQ (9, 10, 11 (default), 12, 14, 15) (I would avoid
> 9 if possible)
> 
> If the second card works,  set one to the defaults,
> providing no conflicts
> with other cards and set the second to:
> 
> Port Address: 330 or 234 or 230... (in that order)
> DMA Channel: this will require some experimenting on
> your part refer to docs
> DMA Xfer Rate: 5.0MB/sec
> IRQ: whatever one you can find that is free in the
> list.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 			-Steve
> 


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