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Re: AIC7xxx ?



Stephane Bunel <s.bunel@medcost.fr> writes:

> Adam Di Carlo a écrit :
> > Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz> writes:
> > > 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?

>   The aic7xxx=no_probe problem is well known and explained in the
> AIC7xxx mailing list. I personaly had this problem on a DELL 6300
> without ISA ports. The error comes from DELL (as explained to me)
> because they use an overlapped IO addressing map between ISA en PCI
> slots. In this case it lead to a complete freeze of the server.

Ok -- would this line on the rescue disk, f6.txt help?

Certain DELL machines        aic7xxx=no_probe

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


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