RedHat 7.0 and aic7xxx

[mbrodeur at nexttime.com (Matthew J. Brodeur)]

   It was a SCAM!

   Well, SCAM seems to be the problem.  I don't know if it's a behavior
particular to the new Linux driver, but the SCAM-assigned IDs got ignored
to some extent.  What seemed to be happening was that the HD (not a boot
device, BTW) that was SCAMed to ID#15 ended up being ID#0 to the Linux
driver.  As I said before, the CDRW was on ID#0 so things got messy.
The best I could do before disabling SCAM was seeing the HD at ID#0 and
the SyJet at ID#4, which was the only non-SCAM device.
   Best I can figure, the driver can't handle SCAM and assumes that
everything not explicitly assigned is at 0.  That would explain why I
could see the HD (fastest response to the controller) and the non-SCAM
stuff, but everything else on 0 is hidden.

   So now I'm a few jumper caps poorer, and I've lost one of the drive
mounting screws.  Oh well.

   Thanks to everyone who helped.  Since the consensus was that it had to
be an address or termination problem, it convinced me to do some poking.


-- 
     -Matt

The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity
-- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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