Hi Tom,

Thank you very much for the info!  I would never have
thought the issue could be the way the card is
jumpered.  So, I found the installation guide with all
the settings on how to configure it.  It includes the
settings for the IO ports and some other stuff.  If
someone can take a look at it and tell me if any of
the other settings should be changed that would be
great!  Here's the link:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppedindexprod.html?sess=no&language=English+US&cat=%2fProduct%2fAHA-1540CF

The manual is under the "Product Documentation" banner
and it is a PDF file.

Thank you again for the help!

J Silverman
--- Thomas Bieg <tomsbsd03@t-email.de> wrote:
> (I'm sure Manuel could help you better on this, but
> since
> it's already late here in Europe he may be offline
> by now,
> so I thought I'd try to chime in in the meantime...)
> 
> Before you can access your drives in any way the
> card has
> to be recognized by your kernel at boot time, which
> seems
> to be not the case.
> 
> Your dmesg output should contain something like
> 
>      aha0 at isa0 ...
>      scsibus0 at aha0
>      sd0 at scsibus0 ...
> 
> 
> There could be several reasons for the failure:
> 
> - Your kernel doesn't include support for this card
> 
>    Unlikely, since every GENERIC kernel has the
> support
>    by default.
> 
> - The jumper settings on your card don't match those
>    expected by the kernel
> 
>    Could be the problem here; this card seems to be
>    highly configurable (I don't have such a card)
> 
>    The (GENERIC) kernel searches the card at IO
> ports
>    0x330 or 0x334, so you have to make sure your
> card
>    is jumpered to one of these (or you will have to
>    build a customized kernel).
> 
> - The settings of your card conflict with any other
>    piece of hardware in your system
> 
>    Check that none of the "irq"s, "drq"s, ... from
> your
>    dmesg (or possibly from other unrecognized cards
> if
>    there are any) match the settings of your card.
> You
>    may also have to reserve the interrupt in your
> BIOS
>    setup.
> 
>    (Look for something like "PnP/PCI Configuration",
>     set "Resources controlled by: manual", then
> "IRQ-x
>     assigned to: Legacy/ISA". )
> 
> - Any other reason I didn't think of... (Besides
> some
>    broken hardware.)
> 
> 
> I hope this gets you a bit further.
> 
> (I'm off to bed now...)
> 
> Tom
> 


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