Re: 755C, DockII (with Adaptec SCSI), and Linux

[pepersb@cuug.ab.ca (Brad Pepers)]

> Hi.
> 
> I have the above equipment.
> I'm trying to get a SCSI interface to work with it.
> So far, no luck.

I have a friend here at work with a Dock II and he did get the SCSI
working.  You will need to patch and then rebuild the kernel.  The
patch needed is in drivers/scsi/aha152x.c.  You need to add a new
signature to the signatures[] array.  If you look in the file you
will see a part like this:

  { "Adaptec AHA-1520 BIOS",	0x102e, 21 },	/* Adaptec 152x */
  { "Adaptec ASW-B626 BIOS",	0x1029, 21 },	/* on-board controller */
...

Add to the list:

  { "Adaptec BIOS:AHA-1532P",	0x1c, 22 },	/* TP Dock II */

This should then let Linux find your SCSI controller.

> I have a NEC 4x CD-ROM and 2 gig HD attached to the Dock II SCSI
> port.  I've also built the latest Linux kernel (v1.2.3) using all
> the Adaptec drivers..  But my machine doesn't recognise any SCSI
> devices when it boots!!!

It will with the above patch.  Let me know if there are other problems.

> Has anyone else done this?
> Is anyone else trying to do this??
> 
> Comments would be most appreciated.
> Thankyou.
> 
> -Lee Hounshell
> lee@tcs.com

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