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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I was just given another known working Adaptec pci scsi card that uses 
aic7xxx.o, and a known working zip drive (works in DOS on this card).
And a different cable because the Iomega drive normally uses the 25D type 
and this card is small-connector scsi.

If I boot with the zipslack.s or aix7xxx.s kernel, it recognizes the card 
and the zip drive (plugged in, with disk in it) and then all I need to do 
is mkdir /zip and mount /dev/sda4 /zip (no need for iw unless I want to 
format the disk).  I could cp gs850.tgz /zip and will take my 5MB file to 
another address this way instead of using a laptop computer.

But if I boot with the BL2 kernel then insmod scsi_mod sr_mod sg and 
aic7xxx (with drive plugged in etc.) I don't get any message about finding 
sda4, and if i try to mount it 'The kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as 
a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?).

Nor could I get the scsi scanner working this way, with scsi modules and 
scanimage, though it worked with a scsi kernel.

What would I need to change in the BL2 kernel .config to produce a kernel 
that works with this scsi card?  Or what else would I need to do to use 
the BL2 kernel, besides load the above four modules?  Am I missing some 
driver?  Do I need ppa.o?  I thought that was only for parallel port zip 
drives.  If I try to insmod it I get 'Device or resource busy' which I 
think means I don't have that device.  This is a 100MB drive (not imm). 
The Zip drive HOWTO assumes you are going to be recompiling the kernel,
not using modules.  Can it be done with the BL2 kernel and modules?

Steven, I would really appreciate if you could take a quick look at my 
previous question about kernel configuration before I try to actually 
compile for my pentium desktops (with sound support etc.).  In the case of 
compiling for an old laptop I simply left out pcmcia, cd-rom, nfs, nls, 
math emulation, etc, but here I am also trying to add things.

I would like to compile a general kernel and then one with support for my 
scsi card to use on occasion.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org