Adaptec 1460C (strange thing)

[Book Man]

OK, this is w-e-i-r-d...

I have a TP770z.  I installed RH6.0 with an Adaptec
1460C and various different ethernet cards.  Currently
rotating between National Semiconductor Infomover,
3com 589, and a Megahertz 55.6/10BT combo card.

Problem is that during install, the 1460C cannot be
found during the scsi identify process.  Neither can
any of the ether cards.  Pop out the cards and
re-insert 10BT card and everything is fine.  all the
while I am doing FTP installations hence the need for
pcmcia access.

Incidently, I always got a timeout error on the scsi
bus when booting with the card installed. 

Today, by sheer accident, I am about to install RH5.2
and I pop out both cards to swith ether cards.  I pop
in the ethre, and all is well.  For giggles and grins
I pop in the 1460C to try the "/sbin/cardctl ident"
command... Voila!  Before I type anything, everything
connected is identified.  SCSI works... No idea why.

About to do a fresh install and will see what happens.
 Will post.  Maybe all along, I had scsi support but
some starnge conflict or initialize error occured?

Confused...

Bookman
--- Bill Mair <bill.mair@mail.bm-soft.com> wrote:
> Book Man wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone successfully gotten an Adaptec 1460C
> > slimscsi card to work with their RH6.0 distro?  I
> am
> > pulling my hair out (what little I have) trying to
> get
> > it to work.
> 
> I have a SlimSCSI APA-1460A and it work without a
> hitch, even got SANE working with my EPSON on it.
> 
> Do you have a resource conflict like an interrupt
> problem ?
> Do you have another card installed at the same time
> ? (although
> that really shouldn't matter).
> What does "/sbin/cardctl ident" say about the
> inserted cards ?
> 
> Bill.
> 
> 

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