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Problems with SCSI support on Red Hat Work Station 3 Update 1



Hi -
 
I have been testing different versions of Red Hat:  9.0, Fedora CORE 1, and RHWS 3 Update 1, for use with hosting a web site. 
 
I have a Compaq Presario S4020WM deskstop as a "test box" that has a PCI SCSI controller:  I am also using the an IDE drive, too.
 
  • Processor: 2.0GHz Athlon XP 2400+ on an MSI mobo
  • System bus speed: 266MHz
  • System memory:  512MB DDR SDRAM
  • Hard drive: 40GB
  • Optical drive: CD-RW (32x/10x/40x)
  • External ports: six USB 2.0, serial, parallel, two PS/2
  •  
    (SCSI controller proc output from a Fedora installtion on the same box)
     
    Chip NCR53C810a, device id 0x1, revision id 0x23
      On PCI bus 0, device 7, function 0, IRQ 11
      Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 32
     
    This is a pretty conventional controller that RH 9.0 and Fedora was able to detect, and install the driver during the OS installation, and was able to support numerous disks and a tape drive on an old DEC BA356 shelf.
     
    (proc output)
     
    Attached devices:
    Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
      Vendor: DEC      Model: TLZ09     (C)DEC Rev: 0173
      Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
      Vendor: DEC      Model: RZ1CB-CA (C) DEC Rev: LYJ0
      Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
      Vendor: DEC      Model: RZ1CB-CA (C) DEC Rev: LYJ0
      Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
      Vendor: DEC      Model: RZ1CB-CS (C) DEC Rev: 0844
      Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
      Vendor: CyberDrv Model: CW058D CD-R/RW   Rev: 15HD
      Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
     
    For whatever reason, RHWS 3 Update 1 could not detect this controller.  I built several kernels using the i686 and Athlon config files and left SCSI support as a module, or forced the load, but I could not get RHWS to see the card.
     
    How do you get SCSI support with Red Hat Work Station 3?  This seems rather "odd" that the Enterprise version of the operating system couldn't handle a fairly standard SCSI controller, where the other "free" versions could.  I am looking through the docs to see what I might have done wrong, but I can't see anything.  Did RH drop support for this controller for the Enterprise version?
     
    Thanks,
     
    TK
     
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