EIDE beats SCSI

Bryan Parkoff (blp-lds@texas.net)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 21:17:02 -0500


Dear Bryn,

I do not use ISA PNP Utility because it won't go through on my system.
Its motherboard has only four EISA and two ISA slots.
When I boot Linux, I typed: "ramdisk ide2=0x168,0x36e,10". It begins to
work fine. It can boot Linux and detect CD-ROM through Sound Blaster AWE32
PNP with no problems. It is very strange that I do not need to use ISA PNP
Utility.
When I add: "AHA152x=0x140,11,4,1" after "ide2=0x168,0x36e,10". It can
detect SCSI, but it gives too many devices such as sda1, sdb1, sdc1,
....sdg1. SCSI is not supposed to give more than 7 devices, but only one
device for Jaz Drive. It does not detect CD-ROM because SCSI was active.
I boot Linux without detecting SCSI but detect CD-ROM that works fine.
Strange....

Bryan Parkoff
BLP-LDS@texas.net