Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124018
AdvanSys SCSI Card Still Not Probed on Install
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
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:
Does the driver exist/get loaded?
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.)
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
How about telling us users how to make a driver disk (every howto I have found is not even remotely current).
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
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.