I have 2 EIDE hard drives, 1 IDE CD/RW, 1 SCSI hard disk id 0, 1 SCSI cdrom, 1 scsi Tape drive and an ADAPTEC 1542cf controller. Motherboard is an ASUS P4 ( I think) with Pentinum II 300 mhz and 64 megs ram. I have tried the update disks and tried passing parmeters to boot Installing 6.1 ( or update ) linux aha1542=0x330 It never sees my SCSI drives, never asks if I have scsi drives, Registers taht I have a RAID ( which I do not ) Tried same setup with RH 6.0 and everything gets seen properly. This is by far the worse upgrade I have ever tried. Even when I force a load on to the ide ( ignore the fact that my swap is on my scsi drive and other information is needed from that drive ). The system does not seem to perform well and is subject to random hangs. I have tried several times to recompile the kernel to get scsi support in and so far I have not had any luck. I rolled back to 6.0! I am looking at TurboLinux and Corel linux as possible alternatives! At least when I ran slackware, it always had a boot disk that recognized my hardware for installation and the kernel always recompiled easily. I am not a HAPPY CAMPER! Abraham Bloom - abraham
The prompt for ISA SCSI adapters is only shown automatically if there are not other devices available for the installation. Since you have IDE drives, the installer does not prompt for anything else. This is to simplify the installer for people that have no clue whether they have a SCSI adapter or not. Anyway, the way around this, for people that know they have ISA adapters, is to boot the installer in expert mode by typing "linux expert" at the boot prompt.