driver problem while installing RH enterprise 3 & 4

Gregory gsminsk at rochester.rr.com
Tue Jul 4 23:47:00 UTC 2006


Wild guess, is your hard drive in workable conditions?

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 09:23, Omabele Onome wrote:
> Dear friends,
> I have sent thisproblem to you for help but till now I get no response
> or even reply. I can not even see it among the achives. Or am I
> getting the email
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> 
> Machine type / model:-  Compaq Professional Workstation SP 750
> Its an empty system in that it has no OS on it so it is a fresh
> installation. Device on the PC :- 
> Adaptec AIC 7899 SCSI BIOS v2.55
>  
> Related product and version information:- 
> 1)     Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 4 
> 2)     Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ES) Version 3
> Severity of problem:-  2
>  
> Problem
> When I get to the Partition page and select Automatic Partition, an
> error message comes up stating
> No drivers found: An error has occurred no valid devices were found on
> which to create new files. Please check hardware for the cause of this
> problem.
>  
>  But it started off loading "loading aic 7xxxx drivers........" So I
> really don't understand why this problem. 
>  
> Steps taken after problem.
> Then we downloaded the driver from Adaptec
> aic7xxx-6.3.9-i586-rhel3.img.gz
> aic7xxx-6.3.9-i686-rhel3qu2.img.gz
>  
> We tried to manually add it to the PC with a fd0 as well as hdd but to
> no avail. 
> So we change the SCSI to 
> Adaptec SCSI card 39160, AHA 3960D Power Domain 39160
> Still having same problem.
> Tried using "linux no probe" but no avail.
>  
> Can you kindly advice what we should do especially since we have two
> (2) products and neither is working. I have been at this for a week,
> someone please help.
>  
> 
> 
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