Problems installing onto a scsi disk.
I recently added an Adeptec AIC-6X60 ISA single chip scsi
controler and 3 older external scsi drives to my system.
The scsi drives are ID'ed 0,4,&6. I would like to install
Debian on the disks and dual boot with W95.
W95 is on the internal 800MB IDE drive. I was able to create
a couple of fat16 partitions on the scsi drives with no
problem (by the way... moving your W95 swap file to a scsi
disk of its own speeds things up nicely)
I have not been able to get the Debian install program to
see the scsi drives.
Following the suggestions I found on a Debian users web page
I have been trying to install using the boot parameters for
an Adaptec 151x, 152x (ie. by typing in at the boot
prompt)
boot: linux aha152x=0x140[,11[,0[,reconnect]]]
The scsi card is jumpered to IRQ11 and the disk that I want
to install / and /usr to is jumpered id0
When I do this the system loads root.bin and linux fine but
when it gets to initallizing things I see the following:
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ty=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended
translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok
qlogicisp : PCI bios not present
eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release
still depends on it.
Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release
still depends on it.
Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
Failed initialization of WD-7000SCSI card!
ppa: Version 1.42
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa: Probing port 0378
ppa: SPP port present
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver : $Revision: 1.18 $
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST43400N Rev: 0116
Type:
Direct-Access ANSI
SCSI revision:02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id1, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST43400N Rev: 0116
Type:
Direct-Access ANSI
SCSI revision:02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id2, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST43400N Rev: 0116
Type:
Direct-Access ANSI
SCSI revision:02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel0, id3, lun0
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At this point the system freezes and I have to cycle power.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I could, i suppose, clear off a couple of hundred MB from
the internal IDE drive and install there but I really wanted
to use these scsi disks.
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On another subject someone was asking how to make his laser
printer finish the print job.
On AIX systems when I run into this I go into lsvirprt and
set Z=+ ( this tells the queue to send an extra form feed
after each print job.) I am sure that there is a way to
tell the queue daemon on a Linux system to send an extra
form feed after each print job. I have never been able to
find a pattern as to which printers need this and which
don't but it seems to work.
Thanks
Jon
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-bye for now-
Jonathan Crowe
jcrowe@eskimo.com
http://www.eskimo.com/~jcrowe/
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