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Re: AIC7xxx ?



Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:56:23AM +0200, Stephane Bunel wrote:
> >   I'just receive 10 DELL servers. Usually I have no probleme to
> > install the Unofficial Potato. But this server are shipped with
> > the latest SCSI Adaptec controlers ( 7899 & 7880 ). Those chips
> > aren't recognized by the boot disk ;( When I boot with a one disk
> > distribution (TomsRTBT, Kernel 2.0.36), the controlers are
> > finded and disk are mountables !!
> 
> Just a long-shot, but when I installed slink on a Dell with 7860 and 7890,
> I needed aic7xxx=no_probe when booting the rescue disk.  Another identical
> machine didn't need it, though I suspect the BIOS settings were different.

Can someone confirm this?

Shouldn't this be mentioned in f6.txt?

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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