Bug#271419: "mesh" SCSI driver should be loaded by default on OldWorld Powermac
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:45:00AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Note 1:
>
> This machine has a SCSI Zip drive is on the apple
> "mesh" scsi controller. Before the "discover disks"
> phase, I had to go to the F2 console and manually
> "modprobe mesh" to get it to recognize the Zip disk.
> Because the mesh driver module was loaded behind
> d-i's back (so to speak), d-i didn't know about it,
> and as a result, "mesh" wasn't carried forward to
> /etc/modules after the reboot. (see note 3)
>
> Many (most?) oldworld PowerMac's have the "mesh"
> scsi controller as their *only* (and in any case
> *primary*) mass-storage interface. Failure to load
> the mesh driver module will make it impossible for
> inexperienced users to install Debian on their
> machines. It seems to me that the mesh driver
> should be loaded by default on *all* oldworld
> PowerMac machines.
>
> The problem is made more complicated because the
> "mesh" chip is on the motherboard, and so doesn't
> show up in the output of "lspci". This only
> strengthens the argument for loading the mesh driver
> by default.
Not necessarily. Does it show up in the mac-io bus? Send me a tarball of
/proc/device-tree if you aren't sure.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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