I don't know if this is the source of your problem, but I have found that the WD7000 auto-probe will die when there is an Adaptec SCSI controller in the system. This is a BIOS issue, not a controller issue.
Dave Bristel On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: > Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:05:21 PDT > From: Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init > Resent-Date: 4 Sep 1999 02:12:15 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin > disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI > initialization. It gets this far: > ... > (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 14/0 > (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions. > > The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI) > hard disk. In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx. > > An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a > Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx > driver. > > I would be grateful for suggestion on working around this problem. > > Tom Kuiper > -- > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) > SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 > Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 > WWW: http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >