On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> I have an RH 5.1 system (running fine) that I want to install MD 6.0
> to from CDROM.
>
> I have an EIDE hard disk and a SCSI CDROM drive on a SCSI controller
> with an Adaptec AIC-6360 chip. This is the same guts as on the
> Adaptec AHA-1520.
>
> I had to add:
> append="aha152x=0x340,11,7"
> to /etc/lilo.conf to get RH 5.1 to see the drives on my SCSI bus.
> This did (and still does) work just fine; but this is with SCSI
> hardware support in the kernel, not a module.
>
> With MD 6.0, I get to the SCSI card selection screen, and probing
> for SCSI fails. When I specify:
> 0x340,11,7
> the install will hang on "scanning SCSI bus..."
>
> The MD 6.0 kernel image does not have SCSI support. Will I need
> to use a non-standard kernel image with rawrite? If so, which one?
> Or am I on the wrong track entirely, and just don't know how to
> specify options to the aha152x kernel module?
>
Hmmm. I don't seem to have experienced the same problems you have.. I have a
motherboard that has Adapted 7880 on board.. I have 2 SCSI drives for Mandrake,
an IDE drive for Windows, a 32x IDE CDRom, and an IDE CD-RW... When I installed
6.0 ( and then later 6.1), the setup detected my SCSI cotroller and
automatically configured the conf.modules to load the proper module during
bootup. You are correct that the monolithic kernel itself does not have SCSI
support built in.. As I understand things, the INITRD is supposed to take card
of this by loading your modules at boot so that the kernel can get to them
before the filesystem is capable of being mounted.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong..
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