Do you boot off the cd or do you use the boot disks? I use the boot disk and then load the module for the scsi card before i start to load the files. If you don't load the module then it will not work as it doesn't have scsi stuff loaded into memeory.
I've tried CD1, CD2 and boot floppy. All fail, but I get further with the floppy.
SCSI: Adaptec AHA2940UW Pro Bios version 2.11.0
ID 0 - FUJITSU MAG 3091LS 9.?Gb Hard Disc ID 1 - ditto
ID 5 - HP C1537A DDS3 DAT ID 6 - TEAC CD-5325 CDROM
ID 0 & 1 - 68 pin connection; ID 5 & 6 - 50 pin connection
With a floppy boot:
1) load aic7xxx module, no params; hangs after displaying:-
"Downloading sequencer code ... 422 instructions downloaded"
I had that same problem with 6.3 but not with 6.4, but can't remeber how i fixed it. I do know that i had to switch 68 pin cables. The cable that came with the one machine didn't work. It had a terminator that could be removed from the cable. We finally got a cable with a built in terminator and problems went a way. I think i had to do a nsf install of 6.3 to over come this problem. For some reason this worked better or was that 6.1. I had this problem more after the system was installed. The kernel would try to install the card over again with "INITRD", once i took this out of the kernel, my problems went away. One side note, I just loaded 6.4 on the 6.3 machine without any problems. all did was put in the bootdisk to boot the system. go down to load modules for the 2940 and just load that with out any arguments, than carry on with the install. Once the module loaded, it showed me all the scsi drives i have.
2) load aic7xxx module, add param "no_reset" (or any other param or combination of paras); hangs in VT4 (no new messages output to screen), VT3 last line is:- "Executing: >>insmod aic7xxx no_reset<<" VT1 has popup box:- "Trying to load module aic7xxx"
Just for laughs, 6.1 loads and runs fine on an identically spec'd m/c!
I found the posting to alt.os.linux.suse that indicated that the aic7xxx code wasn't up the correct patch level for the Pro cards. See Message- ID
for the full text, but the guist was he added a Pro card & CDrom to a working 6.3 system and had to download all the patches from Doug's aic7xxx Page, http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html, patch his kernel source, recomp and his card & CDROM then worked. The web pages do imply that there are problems with Pro cards until at least version 5.1.26 of the driver. Thanks,
a. -- Andy Nudd Oh no! It can't be! That the kindly, noble Zachary Smith could end up in this infernal place. It's not fair. Oh dear!
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