Hi Steve,

Thanks for sending me the settings on how you got the
card working.  However, they still don't seem to get
the card recognized by the OS.  Since I cannot even
enter the card's bios by pressing the Ctrl and A keys
during the boot process to change the DMA settings, I
will be returning the card as DOA.

Thank you for the info though; it will be helpful when
I get a replacement card.

J Silverman
--- Steve Davidson <smd@scshome.net> wrote:
> JS,
> 
> Here's what I did to get this working:
> 
> Card one:
> 
> 	All switches off (open)
> 
> 	DMA set to 5 (default) after typing Control/A
> 
> Card two:
> 
> 	Switches 2, 5, and 6 on (closed)
> 
> 	Switch 5 disables the floppy controller (AHA-1542
> series only)
> 
> 	If switches 6, 7, and 8 are on, the BIOS hook will
> be disabled.
> 
> 	DMA set to 6 after typing Control/A
> 
> A good source of information about this series can
> be found at:
> 
> 
>
http://www.adaptec.com/pdfs/installation_guides/aha1540cf_ig.pdf
> 
> If you follow the information on page 5, section 7
> you will see what I did
> with the switches.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 			-Steve
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > What two cards are you referring to?  The PCI NIC
> card
> > and the ISA SCSI controller card (those are the
> only
> > two card in it)?
> > 
> > Also, shouldn't the SCSI card be recognized in the
> > dmesg even if there are no devices attached?  If
> it
> > should, that, I think, would rule out the issue of
> a
> > bad cable.
> > 
> > Thanks for the other info, though!
> > 
> > J Silverman
> > --- Steve Davidson <smd@scshome.net> wrote:
> > > Manuel,
> > > 
> > > I would write down the settings of the first
> card,
> > > remove it, and set the
> > > second card to the those settings.  Reboot the
> > > system to see if it functions -
> > >  that will test the second card.  If the card
> works
> > > you will remove some of the
> > > guess work.  This will also allow you to test
> the
> > > new card with a known good
> > > SCSI cable (potentially a big area of problems).
> > > 
> > > If you go to the Adaptec Web site you will find
> the
> > > information
> > > you need about configuring this series of
> > > controllers.  The big things are:
> > > 
> > > Port Address (130, 134, 230, 234, 330, 334
> > > (default))
> > > DMA Channel (0, 5 (default), 6, 7)
> > > DMA Xfer Rate (start with 5.0MB/sec)
> > > IRQ (9, 10, 11 (default), 12, 14, 15) (I would
> avoid
> > > 9 if possible)
> > > 
> > > If the second card works,  set one to the
> defaults,
> > > providing no conflicts
> > > with other cards and set the second to:
> > > 
> > > Port Address: 330 or 234 or 230... (in that
> order)
> > > DMA Channel: this will require some
> experimenting on
> > > your part refer to docs
> > > DMA Xfer Rate: 5.0MB/sec
> > > IRQ: whatever one you can find that is free in
> the
> > > list.
> > > 
> > > Hope this helps.
> > > 
> > > 			-Steve
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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