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. Gavin Clark on 10/20/00 4:40 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: > Hello everybody. > > 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!!! > > Thanks for your help, > Tom > > P.S. If anyone has some knowledge of this sort of thing and wants > additional information I'll be happy to provide it. 8-) Thanks again! >
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