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SCSI Trials and Tribulations

Asked by Uncle Jono

I recently upgraded my motherboard -Athlon 64 "3 GHz". The system as configured runs Win XP fine (I am OS agnostic, but sure like Linux). During the upgrade I added SCSI capability (used only for a scanner, in case that matters). My Breezy dual boot installation didn't want to work (Neither did XP initially). Decided to upgrade to Drake.

When I install the Live download CD, the installation hangs about the time it seems to be establishing a temporary filesystem - it never got to a point where I could enter a boot parameter. I tried a Knoppix 4 live disk and it choked until I entered a knoppix noscsi option then it works fine. Changed my SCSI card from the SIIG (Advansys type) to a better supported Adaptec AHA2940 and the Breezy install disk now gets to the point where I could try "linux aic78xxx=noprobe" as well as the other availble parameter. I already know I can install either Breezy (x86) or Drake 64 without the SCSI cards present. I suppose I could try to install without the cards and hack the the bootup files to ignore the scsi, but the Live disc should be able ignore the SCSI of either type at least to the boot option stage, and if it does get there, hopefully there would be a linux noscsi option as with knoppix. Is there such an option? Any ideas?

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UncleOp22 (del-alum) said : 		#1

I too see "interesting" behavior with the 6.06 Desktop installer. I can boot from the CDROM fine (ATAPI CD) and I can browse/surf, etc. But if I do anything that touches my SCSI disks (that's all I have), the RAM Linux hangs. It doesn't hang instantly, just eventually (and soon). This happens when I try to list the partition map (sfdisk -l) or mount my partitions readonly (mount -r). I notice the hard-disk activity light go on steady as it is freezing up.

It also concerns me that ubuntu won't work even if I get it to install (and I am worried that it will freeze during the install process).

I haven't tried knoppix yet; this system works fine under RedHat 9 (where I'm typing this from) but I am hoping to upgrade to a new distro.

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