FC5 and SCSI

Aaron Gray angray at beeb.net
Sun Oct 8 21:07:26 UTC 2006


Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:28 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
>   
>> Added scsi to grub kernel line, and its not hanging now. Doing a
>> reinstall did not solve the problem, probably needed to do a "linux
>> scsi" or something at install startup ???
>>  
>> I did not have to do a "scsi" on the startup command line on our SCSI
>> RAID servers they were fine installing Fedora. Maybe because they boot
>> on SCSI ???
>>  
>> Anyone set me straight on this area ?
>>     
> If the scsi module was not previously loaded then the initrd did not
> know how to configure the new adapters.   Using scsi on the kernel line
> told it to load the scsi modules.
>
> The servers that had scsi installed when the OS was installed already
> 'knew' about the modules needed.  A server that did not already have
> scsi installed would not automatically load the module so you had to
> tell the kernel scsi was needed.
>
> To fix that you need to make sure the scsi module is loaded either from
> the kernel line or from a line in modprobe.conf for now. A kernel update
> done after the scsi module is active should put it into the initrd image
> and should automatically handle that afterward.
>
>   
Thanks for the explanation.

Does that mean if I install Fedora using 'linux scsi' then it will use 
an initrd with scsi drivers installed in the image ?

Aaron
>   
>>  
>> Aaron
>>  
>>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>>         From: Aaron Gray 
>>         To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
>>         Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:52 PM
>>         Subject: FC5 and SCSI
>>         
>>         
>>         I have two SCSI cards but neither seems to be working. They
>>         both seem to hang startup after UDEV, hanging for more than 5
>>         minutes.
>>          
>>         They are an Adaptec AHA2920 and a BusLogic ???
>>          
>>         Any help welcome,
>>          
>>         Aaron
>>          
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