A simple question

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 16 July 2004 01:26, sajiv wrote:
>A simple question !!!
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>- Advansys SCSI PCI controller which was
>supported/detected by the installation process till
>RedHat Linux 9 IS NOW ...not detected by the fedora
>installation process ???? why ???

Humm, its gotten that far has it?  You and I may be the only 2 users 
with advansys cards.  The driver is old, and unmaintained, and in the 
view of the kernel coders, full of races, so it not being built at 
all if you don't have the box that says something about drivers that 
compile cleanly unchecked in the make xconfig screen.

Its a shame IMO, its a hell of a good card, doing everything right in 
terms of termination and other hardware details that make a scsi bus 
dependable instead of needing virgins sacrificed over it weekly to 
keep it working, something I personally have had a hell of a time 
with when the card had an adaptec label on it.  I'd swear to this day 
that the adaptec designers have never understood the concept and 
operating principles of a transmission line, which is what a scsi bus 
is.  Yes, I'm an rf broadcast engineer, and I DO know about such 
things.

Anyway, uncheck that box in the first window of the xconfig screen and 
then you will see that under scsi drivers, the advansys driver will 
now show up.  It will kick out 2 warnings during the compile, but it 
should work.
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Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, 
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