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

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:30:55PM -0700, Kartoz, Michael F wrote:
> 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.
> 
It seems to me what would be helpfull is after you get the message
that it found the scsi controller there is a message involving crtl-A
I think that allows you to see the SCSI device assignments. What does
that show?
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