On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Is there an introduced (between RH5.2 and M6.0) bug with Adaptec 1542
> controllers?
>
> I have tried installing (RH6.0 - Mandrake variety) on a couple of machines
> (Gigabyte motherboards, 166MHz Pentium/350 AMD, AHA1542, IBM 9Gb HD, NE2000
> NIC) and I get similar, intermittant problems - most of the time I can
> install OK up to the point of writing an emergency boot floppy OR writing
> the MBR on the SCSI HD OR trying to find the NE2000 NIC - the drives won't
> mount and and the NIC can't be found.
>
> I have gone back to RH5.2 for this situation - I did not have any trouble at
> all with RH6.0 on a Gigabyte motherboard, 350 AMD, NCR SCSI, Seagate 9Gb HD,
> DEC NIC.
>
> Anyone know what is going on? - there seems to be some indication from the
> lists that there are problems with AHAs.
This is actually quite funny... I've got the reverse problem. I bought
RH5.2 when it came out and couldn't use it because I had nothing but
problems with it and the AHA1542 modules. I could never even get to the
RPM selection with it, upgrade or install, so I had to always go back to
5.1 which worked like a champ. RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.0 have given me
no problems at all with the AHA1542 modules, nor has Cassini. I've run it
on a P166MMX and a P2-350 (both genuine Intel). I've also get PCI NE2000
NICs on both machines and the exact same AHA1542 controller on both.
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