Re: SCSI drive not visible...

[Stephen Smoogen <smooge redhat com>]

Try poking around ftp.redhat.com/pub/spt/smooge There is an aic7xxx boot
image there... but I dont know if it will fix the problem (it does for
some people... and not for others.)

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 tcooper hns com wrote:

> 
> I've been trying to install redhat 4.2 on my 486 8Mb RAM,
> IntelEtherExpress, Adaptec 2740 controller (4 Gb SCSI drive, and SCSI
> CDROM)
> 
> Using a boot parameter (aic7xxx=extended,no_reset) I can see the controller
> initialize, without errors.  I don't see the SCSI drive, or the CDROM.
> When I get into the install and run fdisk, I can't see any drives at all.
> 
> In looking at the archives, it seems that there's a known issue with "wide"
> detection, or some such thing, but my controller (BIOS version 1.01) does
> not have that as an option.
> 
> I've seen some references to downloading a different img file, but in
> poking around redhat's ftp site, I don't seem to see any that relate to my
> system's hardware.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help figuring out where I've missed something......
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Tom Cooper
> 
> BTW - this system runs just fine under DOS, 95, and NT  - please help me
> banish M$ from this hardware!
> 
> 
> 
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