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Title: Tekram DC-315U on 6.00
Post by: gbentley on May 25, 2005, 07:00:45 PM

Foolishly I bought this card thinking that becasue it said it was Redhat compatible it would work out the box with SME.

There are drivers on the Tekram site for RH 8 and 9.

Has anyone got any general advice about how to get this working or maybe recommendations for a low cost scsi card to run a HP DDS3 tape drive that will work on SME 6.0 ?

Many thanks !

Title: Tekram DC-315U on 6.00
Post by: gelcube on May 25, 2005, 09:56:35 PM

You can't go wrong with an Adaptec 2940 adapter (http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodkey=AHA-2940AU&cat=%2fTechnology%2fSCSI%2fSCSI+PCI+HBAs).  Been using one for a couple of years for my DDS2 drive, where it worked with the default Redhat 7.3 adaptec drivers.

Title: Tekram DC-315U on 6.00
Post by: gbentley on May 26, 2005, 09:33:41 AM

My 'local' store (25 miles) has these two Adaptec cards :-

29160N (£82 inc VAT)
19160 (£85 inc VAT)

anyone using either of these successfully with SME 6.0 ?

(Need answer before 9:30am, 26/05/05)

Thanks a mill !

Title: Tekram DC-315U on 6.00
Post by: gbentley on May 26, 2005, 10:02:16 AM

Just found this link - looks promising on the 29160N

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=23592.msg93968#msg93968

Title: Tekram DC-315U on 6.00
Post by: gbentley on May 26, 2005, 06:25:56 PM

...but not if the supplier doesnt have any in stock !!!

I ended up with a 39160 - the chipset on this is the AIC7899G.

Now I realy am in trouble.

insmod aic7xxx just hangs indefinitely

and if i try and do a re-install, the installer hangs on 'loading scsi driver aic7xxx'

Obvioulsy its being recgnised as being there but then ther is some issue ...

Where do I go next with this one ?

I think the 39160 is a fairly popular model and used in servers alot ?

Title: Tekram DC-315U on 6.00
Post by: gbentley on May 27, 2005, 11:06:23 AM

And ... at some point in the future ... someone is following these bread crumbs ....

After some googling and reading I followed a thread on a Redhat Forum.

The author was talking about APIC and various issues around the aic7xxx driver.

Then I remembered seeing an option in the BIOS for APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller - apparently new mobos have fancy IRQ controllers) which was disabled.

I enabled it.

Now the Adaptec Card is recognised :)

And so onto backups ...