Bizzare SCSI mount errors

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

try wiggling the scsi terminator, or removing all but one device from the
chain.

At 06:48 PM 2/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings...
>
>I have recently run across a problem that has me stumped.  I've been
>running a Slackware 2.0.25 kernel for a few months and I've always been
>able mount my SCSI devices without any problem (I boot from an IDE drive).
>Recently, however, whenever I try to mount any SCSI device (disk, CD-ROM,
>ZIP disk, etc.) I receive the following error:
>
>"The kernel does not recognize /dev/sdan as a block device", where n = the
>scsi device number.  I've run the utility /dev/MAKEDEV sda and I still
>can't mount any SCSI device.  I've been running the same kernel for about 3
>months.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this???
>
>Thanks,  Chuck
>
>
>P.S.  Has anyone been able to get the Creative Labs SoundBlaster32 (PnP)
>card to work in any version of Linux??  It works fine in Windows95...:(
>
>
>
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