scsi issue review

[JEFF MCCRIGHT]

According to RedHat, your EISA AHA2740 SCSI controller has been 
supported since Kernel 2.1.x. Is the controller configured for Hardware 
RAID? Could this have something to do with the problem? I am not up on 
SCSI RAID controllers and don't really know if this is an issue, 
however, it would seem to me that if the controller is so configured 
and the installer is expecting a non-RAID drive, you would have 
problems recognizing it and thus the install would fail. I wish I could 
offer a "real" solution for you, but this is the best I have to offer.

Best of Luck!

Jeff McCright

----- Original Message -----
From: All About Computers & Web Design 
<all_about_computers at uniteone.net>
Subject: scsi issue review

> CURRENT:
> I have Red Hat 6.0 with the 2.2 kernel installed and it works.. 
> but i do not
> wish to use this kernel for my server.. it was just a testing thing...
> i have downloaded all drivers known to man for the adaptec aha-
> 2740-t which
> turns out to be
> the aic7xxx.o driver. i looked inside redhat 6 to find the i/o and irq
> assignments that it is using. and i get irq-11(expected) and
> i/o-8c00-8cbe(also expected)
> Now here is the kicker....
> while trying to install redhat 8 i see block device 9 is there for 
> my scsi
> but no ioports nor interrupts... no prob right just install the 
> drivers that
> come with the distro and bam you are done right.... not the case 
> here.... it
> keeps telling me that it cant install the aic7xxx.o so i dowload the
> update,,still no go... so i try to use the aic7xxx_old.o and 
> somthing new
> happens.. now i get a hellacious stack dump and on lsmod i get 
> aic7xxx_old(initalizing) cant rmmod--- says it is busy and cant do 
> anything else with
> it.. i have tried to pass it different options on both aic7xxx.o 
> and _old.o
> so i try to use
> 0x140 0x340 irq 9 or 10 or 11 still nuthing so i use i/o 8c00-
> 8cbe, or
> 9c00-9cfe and still nothing .... i have also tried to contact the 
> guy who
> now supports the aic7xxx.o driver but have not heard back from him.
> today i will try a new woody distro with a bsd guy's help.. but if 
> none of
> that works you can bet your ass ill be at the next lug meeting 
> with a
> desperate need for a current install on this bad beast... you see 
> i am
> several weeks behind on this project and cant estimate a time to 
> completionbecause i am friggin lost...
> damon
> 
> I have recently aquired a hp NetServer 5/100 LM server.
> It contains 4 scsi harddrives and 1 scsi cdrom, 1 ide cdrom, 1.44 
> floppyi cannot get any distro to install with the cdrom.img nor 
> with the
> other.img.
> It appears that it is not initializing the scsi chain. It does however
> find the ide cdrom.i have sucuessfully install Windoze 98 and it
> recognizes all the devices attached to my system.
> the kernel seems to be looking for a module called scsi_mod.
> my question is where do i get this and what do i do with it once i 
> haveit....
> 
> reply 1
> you'll need to find the scsi driver for the primary scsi disk
> and load that at boot time so that the OS can find the scsi disk.
> 
> reply 2
> You didn't mention what distribution you'd tried to install.  If 
> it has an
> IDE
> CD ROM you should be able to use one of the more modern installers 
> likeMandrake or RedHat.  Not sure of the state of other 
> installers, but I'm
> pretty
> sure either Debian or SuSE has a good one, slackweare probably 
> doesn't.
> As Brian said, you do have to tell the kernel what SCSI driver to 
> use, but
> yours sounds pretty typical.
> 
> re
> Ok -Jonathan-- what distro have i tried? --Mandrake 8.0, Open Linux
> eServer 2.4,SuSE 6.4,Debian 2.1,TurboLinux Server 6.0, Slackware7.0,
> RedHat 6.2.....and lo and behold the only one that had the driver for
> my adaptec aha-2742,,, REDHAT 6.0...
> 
> Brian--I wish i had the distro that you speak of where it asks if you
> have a scsi device,,, and actually has the driver for this card..lol
> i seem to be a scsi moron.. i run the expert text install and all 
> i get
> is.. when it goes to second stage install it crapps out becasue it
> cannot load scsi_mod leaving the computer no where to install the 
> os...
> ROB --The bios is ignored because the machine uses an EISA
> Configuration Utility. which overwrites the bios.so telling the 
> bios to
> boot from a scsi device is out of the question.. but thanks for the
> thought.
> 
> Almost all the distros have asked me for special driver disk... i 
> guessthe whole problem stems from me not knowing how to make the 
> above said
> disk or where to get the linux driver for my particular EISA/SCSI 
> card..I think i may need more help.
> The purpose of this box is to be a webserver, ftp server, ssh server.
> I  now have redhat 6.0 installed after two days of trial and 
> error. but
> i am screwed into a display of VGA16 or an 8bit 640X480 desktop...
> And rh 6.0 is before my linux experience so it leaves me a bit
> lost in its ancient practices lol.
> i guess what i would really like is to get a curernt debian distro
> installed... oh what a dream..
> 
> 
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