Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:54:27 -0500 From: "Kronenwetter, Paul" <paul.kronenwetter@lmco.com> To: "'Wheeler John-FJW250 '" <fjw250@email3.mims.mot.com>, "Kronenwetter, Paul" <paul.kronenwetter@lmco.com> Cc: "''AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG' '" <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Two SCSI controllers Message-ID: <4B55904D9AC9D1119BA40000F81E49C7026FE21E@emss04m10.ems.lmco.com>
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When you select the option that you have a SCSI device, go through the virtual consoles (Alt-F[23456]) and see if there's anything "bad" in them. The problem I had with 6.1 is the driver hung (or did something bad) after displaying the AIC7xxx hosts just before it announced the disks/cdrom drive on them. Doug has made several updates to the AIC7xxx driver specifically for that chipset, so it may indeed be a SCSI problem. -Paul -----Original Message----- From: Wheeler John-FJW250 To: Kronenwetter, Paul Cc: 'AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG' Sent: 3/7/00 2:31 PM Subject: RE: Two SCSI controllers Again, I'm uncertain if it a scsi issue. I used this same CD and floppy to install RH6.0 on my simple pentium 90 with IDE at home. The reason I suspect the SCSI is that it is a new variable. The stage I get to when the install freezes, is after I acknowledge that I have a scsi device, it says something like "reading CD" or something like that. I can hear the CD spin up but then nothing. The screen stays blue, the navigation information at the bottom goes away and carriage returns cause the blue screen to "scroll" up. I haven't tried some of the debug options indicated in: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/README.aic7xxx.html not sure if these will help me. Are you saying you need an update disk for installation, or for added func/bug fixes? wheeler -----Original Message----- From: Kronenwetter, Paul [mailto:paul.kronenwetter@lmco.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 1:21 PM To: Wheeler John-FJW250 Cc: 'AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: RE: Two SCSI controllers I have a similar machine (Dell PowerEdge) with the drive and CDROM on different SCSI busses. The Red Hat 6.1 installation worked fine, once the AIC7xxx driver was updated (see: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/ for an update disk for 6.1) What specific errors are you seeing? -----Original Message----- From: Wheeler John-FJW250 [mailto:fjw250@email3.mims.mot.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:15 PM To: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Two SCSI controllers I apologize if this is inappropriate for this list. I have a dell precision 410 that has two SCSI controllers on the mother board. One is a AIC - 7880P and the other is a AIC - 7890AB. The first one is connected to the CD-ROM and the second is connected to the HD. I'm trying to install RH6.0. The installation freezes after I confirm the CD-ROM is a SCSI device. I've tried to search DELL's site for support on Linux, but because this machine was loaded with NT they won't help. I went to RedHat and found an FAQ that said something along the lines of finding one controller before the other but I'm not sure if this is my problem. Finally, I also read something that indicated that the CD-ROM should be on the same controller as the boot drive for installation. I can't do this because they are different bus architectures. The simplest solution (I think) is to copy everything to the HD and perform the installation from there. I was just wondering if anyone had seen this before and if so how did they resolve it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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