Bug 124018

Summary:	AdvanSys SCSI Card Still Not Probed on Install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeff Means <meaje>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Jeff Means 2004-05-22 23:04:59 UTC

Description of problem:
I feel that a piece of hardware that the redhat HCL lists as supported
and is included by default for versions of RedHat Linux _MUST_ be
included in the Fedora Core releases.  Go check the
http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/ and search for advansys for
confirmation of it being a supported device with ease of install
listed as '4. Install an RPM from the Red Hat Linux Installation CD
during installation.'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
FC2

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot System with advansys card
2. advansys card not detected
3. Can not install to SCSI devices attached to card
  
Actual results:
No hard drive available to install onto

Expected results:
Having hard drive to install onto

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-05-24 02:36:33 UTC

Does the driver exist/get loaded?

Comment 2 Jeff Means 2004-05-24 03:35:33 UTC

driver does exist in module form after instal but is not available
during install procudure, so it is required that you have an alternate
supported hard drive for install to proceed. (i.e. IDE harddisk or
SCSI card with attached harddisk that is supported in install initrd
image.)

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-06-08 19:22:24 UTC

Added back.

Note that hardware being previously supported in releases of Red Hat
Linux doesn't automatically mean it will be in Fedora -- there is a
dependence on someone caring enough to maintain the driver, etc (and
for a while, the driver was gone, which is why I nuked it from
module-info to begin with).  

You should be able to make a driver disk with the module to be able to
install FC2

Comment 4 Jeff Means 2004-06-10 15:31:30 UTC

How about telling us users how to make a driver disk (every howto I
have found is not even remotely current).

Comment 5 Paul Howarth 2004-09-10 12:17:37 UTC

I have a workaround for this issue (custom FC2 boot.iso that includes
the advansys driver) at:

http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/drivers/advansys/

I believe that driver disks for SCSI modules in FC2 simply don't work
at all - see Bug #122952

Comment 6 Paul Howarth 2005-06-21 17:30:34 UTC

The advansys.ko module is shipped in the FC4 installer initrd (i386) but the
card is not auto-detected. I believe this is because the pcitable file does not
include the necessary information:

0x10cd  0x1200  "advansys"      "Advanced System Products|ASC1200 [(abp940) Fast
SCSI-II]"
0x10cd  0x1300  "advansys"      "Advanced System Products|ABP940-U / ABP960-U"
0x10cd  0x2300  "advansys"      "Advanced System Products|ABP940-UW"
0x10cd  0x2500  "advansys"      "Advanced System Products|ABP940-U2W"

I don't know if data in the modules.pcimap file is also necessary for
autodetection or not.

I have been able to install FC4 on an Advansys-based system using a driver disk
that provides the missing information, which is available from the URL given in
Comment #5.