Problem with IBM Thinkpad 560 and Raven PCMCIA...

: Hi,
:
: I have installed Slackware 3.3 with kernel 2.0.30 on an IBM Thinkpad
: 560. It contains 2 PCMCIA cards, slot 0 has a Megahertz
: ethernet/faxmodem card and slot 1 contains a RAVEN CDNOTE 4X PCMCIA SCSI
: card. When I boot from the diskette using pcmcia.gz image, the cd rom is
: detected and I was able to install Linux from the CD. After rebooting, I
: get no response from SCSI controller 0, drive 0..and my system hangs.
: The CD is set to Address 5, even when changing to address 0 it doesn't
: help. If I reboot from the diskette and mount my hard drive, then remove
: the /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia file, reboot then I do not get the error.
: Obviously I no longer have PCMCIA support!
: What is the bare.i, pcmcia.gz images on the diskette doing differently
: than the installed kernel?

I'm not sure. The obvious thing to do, though, rather than deleting
the PCMCIA startup script, is to just unplug the SCSI card when you
boot, then try to figure out what's wrong. Normally, these sorts of
lock-ups indicate some sort of resource (interrupt or IO) conflict.

-- Dave Hinds