[ale] Problem with AHA-1522A and RH 5.1

[John M. Mills]

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

> 	I've got the Iomega SCSI Accelerator card in my system which runs
> as a AHA-152x that has no problems with runnin under Debian...

> ... if the AHA-152x isn't bein able to
> register than it could be that either the card can't be auto-probed in
> which case an append statement in the lilo.conf can fix that... or not all
> the support needed by the kernel is included...

I'm using the "Zip zoom SCSI accelerator" which is actually a ROM-less
aha1502e or something like that. My RH4.2/2.0.35 kernel definitely can't
find it, and hangs the system when it tries.  I took the coward's way out
and provided the correct options in /etc/conf.modules:

options aha152x "aha152x=0x140,10"

I force-load the module in rc.local at boot (pretty small, it seemed to
me), and can unload or reload it manually when I turn the device
[scanners] off and on. 

You may come up with a smoother approach, but I figured for a single user
and a $50 card, I could live with it.

Regards -jmm

  John M. Mills, Senior Research Engineer -- john.mills at gtri.gatech.edu
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