AHA-29160 in SPARC-Server

[Jonathan Hirschman]

Mischa Simon wrote:
> "lsmod | grep aic" returns nothing.
> i downloaded the source od the driver from adaptec. How can i "install"
> them?
>
> The boy has an OpenBoot bios. I found that openBoot is like
> openFirmware...
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Re: the BIOS - I really meant the ROM on the SCSI card. If that is a 
card meant for x86, well, that could be an issue. Or not; see if the 
instructions from the previous message work.

jh


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> Mischa
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> Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2007, 15:36 -0400 schrieb Jonathan Hirschman:
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>> Mischa Simon wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I bought a used Sun Enterprise 250 and installed my Adaptec AHA-29160 as
>>> second SCSI card and installed Ubuntu 7.04 for Sparc on drive0
>>> (/dev/sda) attached to the first (internal) SCSI device. 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> but there should be two more Seagate hdds present (attached to the
>>> AHA-29160). 
>>>
>>> How can I tell my ubuntu that there is a second scsi card installed and
>>> load the driver and the drives?
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Is the correct (or any) driver module loaded?
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> lsmod | grep aic
>>
>> Anything loaded? What happens if you try one of the aic drivers 
>> (aic7xxx, aic79xx)?
>>
>> If that works, you just need to put the proper entries in /etc/modules.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, is it possible that the card is not initializing 
>> correctly due to the fact that it is placed in a non-x86 box and the 
>> BIOS isn't used? I'm just guessing with that, i have no experience with 
>> Sparc based stuff.
>>
>> jh
>>
>>
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