>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Kitchener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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.
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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