Adaptec driver won't load during installation. PC Contains 1 Adapted AHA29xx card with 1 Seagate Drive and 1 Cdrom Drive EIDE controller IDE1 - 4 Gig Drive - Contains Windows98 3 Partitions, all Fat32 IDE2 - 20 Gig Drive - Installation drive for Linux Installations sees the two IDE drives but doesn't load the SCSI card driver. However it does detect that there is a SCSI card in the PC. Since the CDROM drive is on the scsi card, of course we can't install RH Linux 7.0.
I have installed RedHat 7.0 with these devices Intel VC820 Motherboard with BIOS VC82010A.86A.0036.P16SCSI Adapter Adaptec 2940U/UW (BIOS 2.57.2) (SCSI ID 7) at Bus:02h Device:09h / IRQ: 9 / IO Port: D800h Western Digital Vantage 9.1Gb U2W SCSI (SCSI ID 0) Saegate 4.5Gb UW SCSI (SCSI ID 1) UltraPlextor CD-ROM (SCSI ID 2) Yamaha 4260 CD ReWriter (SCSI ID 5) Iomega ZIP SCSI (SCSI ID 6) Video Diamond Viper 770 OEM 16MB Sound onboard Network 3Com 3C509B When I connect only UltraWide hard disks, the system works fine. But if I add UltraPlextor, Yamaha, Iomega (All connected with 58 pin cable), the system stops for 5 seconds every 2 minutes or less. So I had to install & use linux without those devices using 58 pin cable. The Windows 98 SE works good with & without those 58 pin devices mentioned above.
If you look on virtual console 3 (use CNTL-ALT-F3 to switch) do you see any information early in the install process about detecting your SCSI controller and loading modules?
I already installed RedHat system without devices using 50 pin cable. But I can't use those devices even after installation. When I boot the system with Yamaha, Plextor & Zip, the computer stops at: """Starting potmapper: """ """SCSI host 0 abort (pid 1024) time out - resetting""" When the SCSI card is resetting the cdrom light is blinking & this process repeats resetting every (I guess) minute forever ... I can't even use keyboard. Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't answer!! I had to turn the computer off with the power swich. And after several tests, the gnome is not working any more. I'm using KDE. I'm getting more problems testing this module!!!
hamletmun, does removing the scsi hard drive from your chain (leaving only the scsi cdrom) help ... (your timeouts make me think perhaps your drive is flaky!)
All the devices working correctly with Windows 98 SE. I don't think the problem could be harddisk. At long last, Doug Ledford mailed me ^^ He said he's longer maintaining the aic7xxx driver & gave me this site "http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/". Someone can teach me how to do this stuff? I tried to make new kernel but failed. I'm getting this message when I do "make zImage" These are last few lines...: make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__ASSEMBLY__ -traditional -c checksum.S -o checksum.o checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define checksum.S:237: badly punctuated parameter list in #define make [2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1 make [2]: Leaving directory '.usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' make [1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make [1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
I am reassigning this to the kernel component ... I hope someone in that group can maybe help you further or point you in the right direction ... good luck!
I ran into the same problem today upgrading kernel from 2.2.16-22smp to 2.2.19- 7.0.8smp. My Adaptec AIC-7850 hangs at boot with repeating 'SCSI host 1 channel 0 reset (PID 18) timed out - trying harder (SCSI 1:0:0:0) device reset, message buffer in use.'
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19328 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.