The problem could be that qlogicisp driver of linux 2.4. The error handling in this driver is rather bad (it later crashed my harddisk filesystem because of a missing terminator, latzer booting with a kernel 2.6 with qla1280 driver showed the ternmination problems...).
Please check the follwoing:* is the bus correctly terminated (it is important that there is a plugable scsi terminator on the external scsi slot because the qlogic controller is not auto-terminating the external slot)? * it is better to use a recent 2.6 kernel on the alphastation 500 (be sure to use the LATEST debian 2.6.15 from debian, older versions have a problem in the IRQ handler that sometimes crash the system in the Alcor [= Alphastation] variation). Try using a recent Testing/Etch installation CD (a CD with kernel 2.6.15 was released 2 weeks ago). This boots without any problems and should install fine.
At 22:59 03.03.2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:27:43PM +0100, Martin Walther wrote: > Am 03.03.2006 um 21:53 schrieb Steve Langasek: > >What is the controller that the CD drive is connected to? > The scsi controller is the normal onboard scsi controller. It's a > Qlogic ISP 1020 PCI SCSI Adapter. > It looks like that the problem isn't in founding the scsi controller. > Maybe the installer loads the wrong drivers. Anyway the installer > couldn't mount the cd. > The CD drive is running but nothing realy happends. I'm afraid that definitely rules out any possibility of it being a missing driver, since this driver is definitely present in the initrd and is the one that I used for all my testing for sarge. If you switch to vt2 in the installer and look in /dev/discs, what does it show? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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