AHA-29160 in SPARC-Server

[Jonathan Hirschman]

Sorry, tired today. The stuff below is wrong.

Try: 

modprobe aic79xx
modprobe aic7xxx

good luck.

jh

Jonathan Hirschman wrote:
> Mischa Simon wrote:
>   
>> "lsmod | grep aic" returns nothing.
>> i downloaded the source od the driver from adaptec. How can i "install"
>> them?
>>   
>>     
>
> You should have what you need right now, nothing to install.
>
> try:
>
> modprobe 79xx
>
> or
>
> modprobe 7xxx
>
> One or the other should work. Otherwise you need to compile a new kernel 
> module, and that's a real hassle :) See if the built-in stuff works first.
>
> jh
>   
>> The boy has an OpenBoot bios. I found that openBoot is like
>> openFirmware...
>>
>> ---
>> Mischa
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2007, 15:36 -0400 schrieb Jonathan Hirschman:
>>   
>>     
>>> 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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