In <eyal.734342130@fir> eyal@fir.canberra.edu.au (Eyal Lebedinsky) writes:

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>Hi,
> I use an old SLS 98pl? which I had to patch so it finds my Ultastor
>scsi controller. The patch came from a message which said 'it will be in
>the next release'. This was many moons ago, now I am trying to go to
>99L6 (the latest SLS I think) and it fails to find my controller.

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>The original problem had to do with another controller attempt (which
>fails to find anything) not properly releasing the IRQ (I think). What
>now? I'd rather NOT fiddle with the card itself.

I got email to the effect that some other startup logic kills the 14F
before it has a chance to come up. The short solution is to change the
I/O address. I did not do this. Instead, on my old system, I installed
the latest linux, fiddled with /usr/include a bit and configured the
system with no hd except the Ultrasor. It booted nicely. Even recognizes
my NE2000 card...

Maybe the scsi startup can be re-arranged so as to NOT kill the 14F?
maybe testing for it earlier will be a better solution? I am in no
position to try it.