On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Winston Chang wrote:
> I've been trying to install mandrake on a BW G3 with an Adaptec SCSI
> controller and a SCSI hard drive, and it stops at the disk partitioning
> stage every time. It says it can't find a hard drive to install to.
>
> Looking at some of the other VT's, it appears that the aic7xxx driver
> doesn't get loaded properly. An manual 'insmod aic7xxx' complains about
> not being able to find a module archive or something.
>
> As a side note, Yellow Dog and Debian seemed to find the controller OK, so
> I'm sure it's not a hardware problem.
>
Unfortunately that module was not included in the installer kernel, nor
the installed version. At some point I had problems building that one and
disabled it.
Stew Benedict
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