I have two new machines. Both have Tyan Thunderbolt motherboards, disks on
SCSI channel A id 0, and CD-RWs on SCSI channel B id 3. I'm trying to
install Red Hat 6.0. On both machines, the RH install script boots fine.
On one machine, I answer several questions. And then it asks:
what type of media contains the packages to be installed?
I click on Local CDROM. It then says:
Insert your Red Hat CD into your CD drive now
I click on OK. It then says:
What type of CDROM do you have?
I click on SCSI. It then says:
I have found the following types of SCSI adapters on your system: Adaptec
2740 2840 2940 do you have any more SCSI adapters on your system?
I click on No. It then says Inititializing CDROM and then complains:
mount failed: Block device required
I click on OK and then it says
I could not mount a CD on device /dev/scd0
The log window says
<4>scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 26, scsi1, channel 0, id 3,
lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
<4>SCSI host 1 abort (pid 26) timed out - resetting
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0
<4>SCSI host 1 channel 0 reset (pid 26) timed out - trying harder
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0
On the other machine, I get to the same point but instead I get a kernel panic
Aiee, killing the interrupt handler.
I even tried giving aic7xxx=no_probe but that didn't help.
Strange thing is that when I first power up the machines, the BIOS lists the
disk and the CD-RW as SCSI device. And the Adaptec ctrl-A utility also lists
them. But after I try to install RH6.0 and fail, if I just do a reset then
neither the BIOS not ctrl-A list the CD-RW anymore. Until I power cycle the
machine.
Any ideas? Any help much appreciated.
Jeff (http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/qobi)
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