Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[David Johanson <dcjohan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
>  
>
> > > > 4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the
> > > > install
> > > > 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except
> > > > the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used
> > > > for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during
> > > > the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far
> > > > the fastest device.
> > > >
> > > >   
> > > >        
> > > You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices...  (vendor, model,
> > > etc)   but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using  Adaptec 29160
> > > controllers.
> > >
> > >      
> > opps!
> >
> > Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
> >    
>
>
> I assume you've tried the 'safe' install?   Just an option to try.
>  
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off 
version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after 
loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the 
install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's 
an IDE, NOT SCSI problem!  It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed 
by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying 
they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each 
HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running 
perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had 
identified at the start of the tech support request