SCSI needs

[Rudi]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:04:27AM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:58, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> > FC1 uptodate with yum.
> > 
> > I have to move a scsi drive to a system because the system that it is on
> > is old and is failing...  Problem is that I don't have a SCSI card in
> > any of my other systems.  I went looking in my ole' bin of computer
> > cards and found 2 IDE SCSI cards:
> > 
> >   Adaptec AHA-1520A
> >   Adaptec AHA-1540CF
> > 
> > The 1520 has jumpers on it and I have no idea what they are, but the
> > 1540 has a toggle switch block with a lable on the back of the card
> > documenting the toggles.  Great...
> > 
> > But I was wondering should I even try either of these or buy (or search
> > for) another version.  I'm running out of time with the failing system
> > and kind of want to resolve this quicker.  Any suggestions to how to
> > setup the 1540 or a better course of action?
As you already stated, the 154x is an old ISA card and is still supported by FC1

The setup of the card is quit simple, select an I/O port and a BIOS address 
not in use. The bios address is only neccesary if want to boot from the drive.

sw5 is only used if a floppydrive is connected (1542) so that's a don't care.

If you only connect 1 disk drive, termination should be enabled on the controller
as well on the drive.  

If you want to use a slightly more modern card you could go for a ncr/symbios
53c810 it's a cheap and reliable card.


> Have waited for any reply...  So if no one has understanding of 1540
> what scsi card should I purchase that is supported and works well?
> 
> Please any help is appreciated.
> 
RGDS Rudi.
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