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Re: Any knowledge of aic7xxx in RH 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Sun Oct 20 16:12:38 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:09:27 -0600 (MDT)
From: RHS Linux User <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Ray Atnip wrote:
>
> FWIW. I'm running a 2940 card and have experienced no problems with
> it regarding upgrades or 2.0.18 or 2.0.21.
>
> Can you be more specific in the problem you are experiencing?
Yes, I purchased RH 4.0. When I boot off the boot disk. All is well. I
choose CD install and it finds the RH cd. I then tell it yes I have a
SCSI card. I choose Adaptect 2940(I have 3940), I tell it autoprobe and
I never hear or see of the machine again. It locks on the Scanning for
SCSI devices (or whatever that screen says immediately following this
choice) screen. Nothing other than a hard reboot will help. If I tell
it I will give it the settings I enter 0x7000,10 or 0x7100,11 (NOTE:
these may not be what I enter, I am not home and don't remember if the
I/O address is correct, but the channels are definately on IRQ 10 and 11.
Anyway, these correspond to the two scsi channels I have on my 3940. If
it matters, I got the I/O settings from Winbloze 95 which looks like a
PNP setting, which may not work.
In every other kernel I have used, I have never passed settings to the
aic7xxx driver, so I really shouldn't need to anyhow.
When I was running Slackware 3.1 and I upgraded to 2.0.18 kernel, the
boot would get to where it detects SCSI devices, detect either one or two
(I don't recall) and then hang. Unfortunately, I didn't keep that kernel
long enough to remember the exact error it would give. Basically it
would require a hard reboot as well. Unfortunately as well, the RH
install screen is "in the way" of any errors the driver may be giving (if
there is a way to see these errors please let me know.) Every kernel
from 1.3.57 to 2.0.12 I have tried has worked with the exception of
2.0.18.
This may be coincidental, but nevertheless, the install of RH 4.0 locks
when it tries to detect my SCSI card and I need help please!! :) thank you!
For what it's worth, I also tried installing from an ext2 formatted jaz
drive and got to the same spot and got the same error.
Thanks again,
Todd
toddw@cyberhighway.net
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