From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows 98) Description of problem: The aic7xxx module does not see an installed CDROM. The system is a PII- 400 w/ an AHA2940W controller. The SCSI BIOS sees the CDROM, but aic7xxx does not detect it. I've tried aic7xxx=no_reset and aic7xxx=ultra. I've tried driver disks with aic7xxx_mod and aic7xxx_new. The drive works fine in the same machine within Win98. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from RH7.1 Install CD 2. Choose CDROM as source media 3. Actual Results: After choosing the a local CDROM, it asks for a driver. But the aic7xxx driver is already loaded. Expected Results: The aic7xxx driver should detect the CDROM Additional info: Initially, I installed via a network install, then tried to adjust the module parameters. This still did not work. I got the patch from http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/ and applied it to the kernel. It still was not detected.
Use of aic7xxx=no_reset resolves the problem. Perhaps the problem lies in the reset. Since the Windows drivers work fine (i.e. it doesn't reset the SCSI bus) and no_reset works, I've retracted the bug report.