Re: Debian Rescue Floppy / Adaptec bug redux
definately a BIOS issue then....some motherboards have the problem, others
don't. Anyway, how many people use WD-7000 SCSI controllers anyway? ;)
Dave
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 22:35:53 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
> To: targon@targonia.com
> Cc: adam@onshore.com, debian-testing@lists.debian.org,
> karl@kalle.csb.ki.se, mats.e@telitel.se, jrrodgers@hti.com,
> 36749@bugs.debian.org, mmagallo@efis.ucr.ac.cr
> Subject: Re: Debian Rescue Floppy / Adaptec bug redux
>
> Hi,
>
> On 6 May, David Bristel wrote:
> > The problem isn't with the Adaptec, it's the Adaptec on certain motherboards.
> > I'd be happy to test new patches on the more problematic boards I've
> > experienced, I just don't have the time these days to develop the changes
> > myself. I also think that perhaps it's time to experiment with the 2.2 kernels.
> > I know this makes for a larger image for the floppy, but it may solve all the
> > problems we have been seeing.
>
> Nope. The problem exists with 2.2 kernels as well. I had to create
> Adaptec-only rescue disks for both 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels in order for
> our hardware to boot properly (i.e w/o crashing everytime a SCSI probe
> is done).
>
> -Ossama
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> Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
> Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
> 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26
>
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