Dieter Rohlfing wrote
The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the
main hardware components:
Hi
May be this is a hint.
I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 on a SCSI only system right now.
For me only booting from the cd-rom doesn't work.
(LDLoadlin ... something and
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Dieter Rohlfing wrote:
Tim Sailer wrote:
Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem,
and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek.
It's revision B with BIOS 1.21
The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best. I have a
production
Hi Dieter Rohlfing; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 22, you wrote :
Hi Mark,
thanks a lot for your reply.
The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the
main hardware components:
- Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM
- Adaptec
Hi Craig,
thanks a lot for your replay.
for the record, i've built at least half a dozen debian systems with
adaptec 2940 scsi controllers. with no problems. most of these are
running linux 2.0.29 or 2.0.30. Installing them was straight-forward,
just boot off the boot/rescue floppy and
Hi Damir,
thanks a lot for your reply.
I have VLB2842 based card and I _never_
got a stock boot disk to work with that setup
It's not only the 2842, but the 2940, too.
The problem seems to be due to whole _slew_ of different SCSI driver
probes on the stock boot floppy which confuse the
Hi everybody,
since 2 weeks I'm trying to install the debian linux distribution, first
attempt was with 1.2.8, second with 1.3.1. Both resulted in crashing
down during the boot process (look for subject install problem: aic7xxx
encountered spurious IRQ / aborting command due to timeout).
During
In your email to me, Dieter Rohlfing, you wrote:
Hi everybody,
since 2 weeks I'm trying to install the debian linux distribution, first
attempt was with 1.2.8, second with 1.3.1. Both resulted in crashing
down during the boot process (look for subject install problem: aic7xxx
encountered
Tim Sailer wrote:
The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best.
True. I *always* install the latest driver which is rarely in the
current Linux kernel.
For example, the default Adaptec 2940U driver (aic7xxx) in 2.0.30 does not
do shared IRQs without a tiny patch to
Tim Sailer wrote:
Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem,
and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek.
It's revision B with BIOS 1.21
The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best. I have a
production system with a 4 month old 2940 in it that runs
with
In your email to me, Dieter Rohlfing, you wrote:
Tim Sailer wrote:
Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem,
and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek.
It's revision B with BIOS 1.21
That's fairly recent I think..
The 2940 and it's chipset are considered
Hi Mark,
thanks a lot for your reply.
The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the
main hardware components:
- Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM
- Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11)
- ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM)
- NE2000
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