Re: [PLUG] AIC-7869

[Mental Patient <mental@neverlight.com>]

Kam Salisbury wrote:
> I am being beaten by an incompatibility with an Adaptec 7xxx series driver
> and its support under Redhat. I will try debian on Monday but I was
> wondering if anyone else had recently had to install Linux on an Intel
> motherboard with an on board AIC-7869 SCSI controller.

I've used the aic7xxx driver with a 7890 and a... 4940 was it? Anyways, 
the driver is fine. I found that on my old work station if I enabled the 
probe all luns option for the module (I was using an initrd), it'd hang. 
 This was a cdrom issue. Disconnecting the cdrom let me boot and 
disabling that option let me boot and use the cdrom. Since I didnt have 
a cd changer, turning it off wasnt problematic for me.

That should give you some things to look into. YOu may just need a 
different boot disk. I believe redhat my have some as errata.




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