I've played with a bunch of the settings in the SCSI card bios to no
avail.. Nothing seems out of place or to be configured incorrectly.. And
it's weird because, again, it always works fine in windows but only works
intermittently in Mandrake.
Could someone out there help me work around this problem? How can I tell
Mandrake not to load the aic7xxx.o module on startup? It's doing it REALLY
early.. like before all the "Starting... [ OK ] " messages it's trying to
load the SCSI module. Where is it being told that I want it to load the
module? And how can I tell it not to?
Thanks,
Tom
At 14:12 21/10/00, you wrote:
>there is a way to drop into the adaptec card's BIOS on startup. poke around
>and see if any settings look funny (use your best judgement). there is a
>tool in there which shows you what it can see on the scsi bus. check for
>termination / device # problems.
>
>Sorry I can't be more specific.
>on 10/20/00 4:40 PM, Tom Eastman wrote:
> > I have an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with a hard drive plugged into it. My
> > problem is that, when booting linux, the SCSI card goes into an infinite
> > reset loop about half the time and I can't boot.
> >
> > What is *weird* about this is if my computer has been turned off for a
> > while and I turn it on, it always fails to boot, whereas if I've been
> > running windows for about half an hour already, it will generally work
> > perfectly.
> >
> > Last time I had Mandrake installed, it didn't try to load the aic7xxx.o
> > module unless I told it to, that way it would always boot and I would only
> > risk crashing the computer with "insmod aic7xxx" if I needed to get
> > something off of that hard drive. But now it always tries to load the
> > module at boot time.. How can I tell it not to?
> >
> > Or, even better, if someone could tell me what might be causing the card to
> > not work unless it's been in windows for a while, I could fix the problem
> > once and for all. It would be a major step towards reducing my dependence
> > on windows... I can't think of a more noble cause!!!
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