On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 10:36, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > I am having an issue installing FC1 on an Intel 440GX motherboard, and > specifically the problem appears to be with the Adaptec AIC7xxx driver > which just hangs, and anaconda never does find any disks to install > to. I have had this issue in the past with other machines, and in the > past the apic vs noapic option to the kernel seemed to work, as did > pulling down the correct Adaptec DUD and using that as my driver disk. > However, none of these are working, and i was wondering if anyone else > has found this problem and a possiblem solution. > > Any resonse would be greatly appreciated. > > Michael Weiner The trick, as another pointed out is to load the aic7xxx_old module. I have an Adaptec 2940 running my tape drive, and with the aic7xxx loaded, modprobe shows the scsi card and tape drive, but it will not actually run. tar -tvf /dev/st0 would just return "device not found". As soon as I do an insmod aic7xxx_old it comes right up. Stephen
