On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:45:00AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Note 1: > > This machine has a SCSI Zip drive is on the apple > "mesh" scsi controller. Before the "discover disks" > phase, I had to go to the F2 console and manually > "modprobe mesh" to get it to recognize the Zip disk. > Because the mesh driver module was loaded behind > d-i's back (so to speak), d-i didn't know about it, > and as a result, "mesh" wasn't carried forward to > /etc/modules after the reboot. (see note 3) > > Many (most?) oldworld PowerMac's have the "mesh" > scsi controller as their *only* (and in any case > *primary*) mass-storage interface. Failure to load > the mesh driver module will make it impossible for > inexperienced users to install Debian on their > machines. It seems to me that the mesh driver > should be loaded by default on *all* oldworld > PowerMac machines. > > The problem is made more complicated because the > "mesh" chip is on the motherboard, and so doesn't > show up in the output of "lspci". This only > strengthens the argument for loading the mesh driver > by default.
Not necessarily. Does it show up in the mac-io bus? Send me a tarball of /proc/device-tree if you aren't sure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
