I've never had a problem installing mandrake 8.0 or 8.1 (or any mandrake from 6.x) on any of our SCSI adaptors from Adaptec. (Range from aic7880 to aic7899) (we pretty much have from 40MB/sec cards too 160MB/sec cards).
The high end stuff is on the MB (Dell poweredge). The low end stuff is pci card. The low end had problems once but after a scsi bios upgrade never had a problem again. Scsi bios for our aic7880 is 2.20.0 with 2000 date. might want to give that a try.. but be carefull... if you do it wrong your MB may be screwed (or the pci card if it's not built in). I'd call adaptec to make sure that you get the right bios upgrade... On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:02, Arief Rakhmatsyah wrote: > Yes, there is trouble when installing distro with kernel 2.4.3 (MDK 8) or > 2.4.8 (MDK 8.1) on AIC 7xxxx adapter. I've got the same trouble on my Intel > C-440GX+ board. > > To overcome the problem, when you install it, don't boot your compie from > installer CD. Make boot floppy (use rawrite or rawrite for Win from your MDK > CD1) and use kernel image 2.2.19. > > Riev > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Abdo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Hello all, > > > > We have fortunately stumbled on a dual PII Digital 3000 Server. It comes > > equipped with a Raid array, a MYLEX DAC960P/PD Raid array Firmware > 3.50-0-27 > > > > The BIOS has SCSI Controller: Adaptec AIC-7880P (on-board BIOS 1.26S1.01) > > > > We have been unable to install either RH7.2 or Mandrake 8.0 > > > > We tried to use the following SCSI drivers: > > using the aic-7xxx causes a hang > > using aic-7xxx_mod works, but we can't recognise the drive. > > > > We are trying to install linux on a SCSI hard drive, and then use the raid > for > > our data storage. > > > > This problem happens wether we're installing Mandrake 8.0 or RH7.2. > > Does anyone have any experience installing Linux on this model server, or > where > > can we get drivers for these SCSI controllers? We have looked around but > to no > > avail. Maybe we are looking in the wrong areas? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need any more information, > please > > let me know. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Bryan Whitehead SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology Phone: 818 354 2903 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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