<solved>[RE: Cannot install FC2 or FC3-test1 on 29160 SCSI adapter (no html this time)]

[Sergio fernandez]

Hi mate
I have FC2 running on a Adaptec SCSI 19160 connected to a SCSI HD.  I 
found that updating the Adaptec SCSI bios/firmware on the card helped.  
Also In the PC bios I set the primary chain detection to SCSI instead 
of the default IDE.  I also updated the PC bios to the latest firmware.
Hope this helps




On 20 Jul 2004, at 20:17, Kartoz, Michael F wrote:

>> 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
>>
>
> The solution is to use noprobe when booting the install CD and then
> manually add the aic7xxx_old driver (instead of aic7xxx).  I had seen
> mention of using this driver to solve installation issues on older
> Redhat distributions but could not find this driver on FC2.  Turns out
> that it is in there but appears alphabetically under "O" for Old
> adaptec... and I was only looking in the "adaptec" section of the list.
> Thanks to all who provided suggestions!
>
> -Mike
>
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