Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Kitchener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Stephen> I am having a problem with a SCSI Card that I have added to an already
> Stephen> installed Mandrake 7.2 System
>
> Stephen> The BIOS detects the card and drive ok on boot, and when the card was
> Stephen> first installed and Mandrake was booted it was detected as a new piece
> Stephen> of hardware. I must say at that point that was all I had connected, no
> Stephen> drive was attached at that time.
>
> Stephen> The Drive and card are NOT displayed during the boot sequence, is this
> Stephen> because I am not booting from a SCSI device ?, and when the system is
> Stephen> up, I have to modprobe the card for me to see the card
> Stephen> and CD Drive.
>
> My guess is that it's because the boot is using an initrd that doesn't
> know about the SCSI device.
>
> Stephen> The card is added to /etc/modules.conf as
>
> Stephen> alias scsi_hostadapter advansys
> Stephen> alias scsi0 advansys
>
> Stephen> Do I need to pre-install and/or modprobe the card on boot ? in addition
> Stephen> to the lines above.
>
> This sounds like exactly the problem I just had. In my case the
> solution was to comment out the initrd lines from /etc/lilo.conf, and
> run lilo.
>
> In my case I had had another scsi card when I did the install, and the
> initrd that was built on install attempted unsuccessfully to load the
> module for the old card, and never tried to load the module for the
> new card.
>
> Your problem may be different from mine, in which case the solution
> may be too.
>
> I never did figure out how to build and load the right initrd, which I
> gather you need to do only if you're booting from a SCSI device, which
> neither of us is doing.
mkinitrd - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading
modules
man mkinitrd
>
> Stephen> I am getting strange seek errors when I am writing a CD, is this because
> Stephen> I have added the card and drive after the system has booted ?
>
> I'd be surprised; if it's finding the drive at all I would think the
> seek errors are something else. Try playing with lower write speeds.
>
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Larry
