----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Bornath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1 and SCSI install probs > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 21:49 +0200, Robert Fox wrote: > > > I have the following: Adaptec 2940 UW Excuse this interruption, BTW, any one knows how/where to get scsi drivers not included in mandrake? Thanks in advance. > > Mine is a DawiControl with SymbiosLogic chip > > > > SCSI ID 3 is a Plextor PX-32TS 32X CD-ROM > > Mine is a Plextor UltraPlex40max > As CDRW I have a Plextor PlexWriter 4/2/2 > > > When I boot the Mandrake 7.1 CD - after the bus scan, it asks which SCSI > > CDROM to use, scsi0 or scsi1 > > > > I have tried both, but the follow occurs when I try scsi0 (the plextor drive) > > <4> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi 0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 > > <4> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi 0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 > > <4> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > > <7> VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) > > scsi0:0:3:-1 Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE = 0xa0, SEQADDR = 0x15d > > > > Then a timeout occurs and it says unable to read scsi0 - check that CD is > > in the tray > > Same here but later. I get over the preliminaries until > partitioning and formatting is done. When it comes to choose the > packages for installation I get the same timeout as you. > > > The system work fine with other OSs including Mandrake 7.0 NO PROBLEM!! > > Same here. It works perfect with MDK 6.x, 7.0 and 7.1. It just > dies during installation. > I posted this twice here and to Mandrake directly. Never got an > answer on the list, just this single "old or low-budget > hardware" mail which should be ignored. > > I did a work-around with a harddisk-installation. OK, but that's > not perfect, is it? How can I do a demo of the Ease of > Installation when I have to start making a bootdisk and copying > the files from a perfectly working CD-ROM to a harddisk for a > start? > > wobo > -- > GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE > For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html > > _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
