Hi Steve,

Hmm, so the card might not be DOA?  However, if you
read my email to Manuel earlier, I don't even get a
statement in the bios when the computer is booting
that the card's bios is recognized.  Is that a normal
issue with the card not be configured correctly?  I
would really like to think the card is salvagable.

As for the irq question, I don't think it allows me to
configure it that way.  I'm not exactly sure though,
since I am not an expert in working with the bios
(have been using macs for most of my work until
recently :-) .

Thanks for the help!
J Silverman
--- Steve Davidson <smd@scshome.net> wrote:
> J
> 
> The two cards are the Adaptec ones.  I use these all
> the time.  This evening I
> will be adding a second one to my 1.6.1 system. 
> I'll let you know what I had
> to do to make it work.
> 
> I'm not sure about how well it may be recognized -
> device termination may be
> an issue.  I know that for NT all I do is change the
> port address and the IRQ
> and NT deals with the DMA magically.  I suspect that
> if the I/O is intensive
> that the DMA channel should be changed as well... 
> In that case I would look
> at using the DMA channel that the IDE controllers
> would use if they were in
> the system.
> 
> One other thought...  Does your system allow you to
> choose which IRQ's are
> relegated to PCI and which to ISA?  If so,  then I
> would make sure that the
> two IRQ's used for the SCSI are set to ISA/Legacy -
> the Adaptec's have no
> clue about PnP.
> 
> 			-Steve
> 
> 
> > 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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