Cannot install FC2 or FC3-test1 on 29160 SCSI adapter (no html this time)

[Tim Raats]

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
>