RE: SCSI Problem!! (Please Help!)

["alberto" <chapeto bellsouth net>]

I WILL RECOMMEND TO YOU AND EVERYBODY TO BUY LINUX MANDRAKE 7.1 AND YOU WILL
STOP SUFFERING WITH RED HAT LINUX PRODUCTS.

ALBERTO
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Blais Klucznik
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 7:18 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem!! (Please Help!)


Hello,

    I too am having problems with the Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 when I try to
install it on my scsi-only computer.  The adapter is an Adaptec 2940UW with
2 Seagate ST32155W SCSI drives.  The install program either asks for an
additional driver disk or, if I cancel that request, the install gets into a
endless loop  with the displayed message "Loading aic7xxx driver .........".
Same old 'Trying Harder' message when you look at the 'system-related
message' screen, CTRL-ALT-F3.

    Thus far I have had no luck with RedHat support.  They seem to be
non-knowledgable about SCSI devices.  The answers I've received from them
suggest altogether different approaches and they often conflict with other
advice they give.  I simply do not think they (RedHat Support) really know
what is going on.

    Either 6.1 or 6.2 runs fine on my old 486-50 machine (IDE drives) and
Win98 worked fine on the SCSI machine but the RedHat install program simply
hangs in the aic7xxx loop on this machine.  If I had the source code for
RedHat's install program I would be able to do something about it but, of
course, the RedHat install program is not open source.

    In closing I suspect we are on our own here.  Either we abandon using
SCSI adapters and drives and use IDE's or we don't try to install RedHat on
these machines.  Of course we can try to hack our way through but that seems
inconsistent with the statement that RedHat supports the Adaptec 2940UW
adapter.

    If I ever come up with a solution I will post it on this group board.

    Good Luck

    Blais Klucznik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adinda Praditya" <abdmalik mail1 cso ui ac id>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem!! (Please Help!)


> Hai,...
>
> I did, and it couldn't work. Let me tell you again (about the problem). I
> can use my linux normally, (booting from disk) it's just everytime i run
> 'setup' or 'linuxconf' or something like them, they show some error and
> then finally get hang. (i've sent the error message to you a few weeks
> ago) I'm sure that there is a partition like that. I gave you my
> /etc/fstab, did i?
>
> Does anyone can help me? If you don't know the problem (missed from this
> list), just let me know and i'll send you all you want to know for helping
> me, privately. It's been a month!
>
> Btw,... Thanks Leo, for replying all my email (only you did that! while
> in other list i joined didn't). What about my LILO? sound's strange,
> is it?
>
> Bye,
>
> Abdul Malik bin Hilman bin Mahyuddin
> ------------------------------------
> Your Windows can not be cleaned?
> Use Linux.
>
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>
> > Hello Abdul,
> >
> > > 2. run 'e2fsck /dev/sda5' the output was
> > > e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 95/08/09
> > > e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda5
> > >
> > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct
> > > ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an
> > > ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the
> > > superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an
> > > alternate superblock:
> > > e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> >
> >  If you read this error message you will see e2fsck tells you it cannot
find
> > an ext2 partition. Are you sure this is a valid ext2 partition? In that
case
> > try running e2fsck with a different superblock. The block/cluster that
is
> > suggested (8193) usually contains a copy of the superblock.
> >  So if there is no partition, you can understand why you can't boot ;-).
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Leonard.
> >
> >
> >
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