RH Linux 5.1 and scsi problem - MediaVision Pro Audio 3D

[j.perry at lynx.dac.neu.edu (Jeffrey Perry)]

Hello again all!

	Thanks for the advice on scanners. I decided to stick with the
Acer 610PT I was given for Christmas for now...even though there
is no hope for Linux support since it is parallel AND acer
refuses to provide specs. 

	I am trying to recycle an old 486 as an email and
Internet surfing machine for someone else. It has
a mediavision scsi card which provides sound and
the interface to a Sony cdu55s (SCSI) cdrom.
I have tried to install using RH 5.1 and RH 5.2
but neither can autodetect the SCSI card on
bootup. I fetched the boot disk for slackware and
it had no problem.

I even tried adding ncr53c406a=0x230,0,1 to the
boot line when redhat first comes up, but it only
complains later it does not recognize it.
So I chose the chipset from the scsi list and
selected manual configuration. It came up and asked
for module pramaters...so I entered the same thing.
It could still not find the card.


Help! I have looked at dejanews and the FAQs
what am I doing wrong?


PS. I had no trouble making the boot disk from
the powertools cdrom I have or from redhat's ftp
site BUT the support disk in both places I am
having the worst luck with. I can't get Linux to
mount it as part of the install process if I say
I want to install from Hard Disk.

Thanks in advance

Jeffrey Perry
j.perry at lynx.dac.neu.edu
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