Sym 53c416 SCI card probs

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This is an older ISA PNP device and it will not detect device nor will kudzu find this device. Dmesg show the device as being there:

Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'SYM 53C416'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12

but cat/proc/scsi/scsi shows
Attached devices:

I have a Castlewood Orb Drive attatched and it's not being recognized because Linux is not assigning IRq's and addresses to the SCSI card. What more can I do?

I have modprobe sym53c8xx in my rc.local( I tried sg for SCSI Generic); the SCSI subsystem loads but there are no scsi devices in my dev.

I also tried assigning some IRQ's to the device in the bios and done a modprobe sym53c8xx sym53c8xx=0x220,5 ...maybe the wrong ones were chosen

Help

You need to add the parameters for the card to your kernel line in grub.conf.
Have allok at the grub manunal and the kernel documentation for the card.