You should think of installing FC3-test1. I have it right now and its even better dan FC2. The problem I have is that up2date doesnt work. But that can be fixed. > My apologies for posting html previously. I'm new at this. > > FC2 is not detecting my hard drive on a 29160 SCSI adapter during > install. Can anyone help? > > I'm trying to install FC2 on a machine with only 1 hard drive that is > attached to an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller. The AIC-7xxx driver is > automatically loading and is finding my adapter (I can see this by > hitting <F4> while module is loading. However, my disk drive is not > found. When I get to automatically partitioning, I get "no drives > found". I had no problems installing and running Redhat 9.0 previously > on this machine. I also tried FC3-test1 but it didn't help. > > When I hit <F4> while AIC-7XXX module is loading on FC2, I get the > following: > <6>PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0d.0 > <6>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > <4> <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> > <4> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > <4> > <4>(scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16 > bit) > <4>scsi0: Unexpected busfree while idle > <4>SEQADDR == 0x1 > > There is a pause of about 10 seconds between the 5th and 6th lines and > then a shorter pause between the 6th and 7th lines. The last pair of > lines are repeated about 60 times with brief pauses between them. It's > hard to get an exact count. By the way, the IRQ 5 on the first line > does correspond to the irq that the embedded SCSI bios claims the > adapter is using (when I hit CTRL-A during boot-up). > > On Redhat 9.0 install I get the following when performing the same > steps: > <6>PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0d.0 > <6>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8 > <4> <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> > <4> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > <4> > <4>blk: queue dfa03414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > <4> Vendor: IBM Model: DDYS-T18350N Rev: S80D > <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: > 03 > <4>blk: queue dfa03414, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > <4>scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queueing enabled. Depth 253 > <4>Attached SCSI disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > <4>(scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16 > bit) > <4>SCSI device sda: 35843670 512-byte hdwr sectors (18352 MB) > <6>Partition check: > <6>sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > > > I'm running on a dual P3 400MHz with a 440GX chipset. > > I've tried using "linux noprobe" and "linux apic" and "linux noprobe > apic" to do the installation without any effect. When I specify > noprobe, I have to choose a driver to get AIC-7XXX support. At this > point, I have attempted to use various module parameters such as > "extended", "no_reset", and "no_probe" (not really knowing what they do) > but when I specify any options, the module does not load. I also tried > to use a Redhat 9.0 driver disk and was not surprised when it didn't > work since it is for an older kernel. I'd like to try a driver disk > compiled from a 2.6 kernel but haven't been able to find one. > > Any ideas on how to make this work? > > - Mike >
