Re: 2940UW installation problem
I've got a set of unofficial install-disk images, which have a newer
version of the aic7xxx driver. You can find them at
http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/. Several people have reported
using them successfully, though they were generally needing to boot off
a SCSI drive.
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 07:12:49PM -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying a completely new installation of Debian 2.0 on a machine
> which boots from an IDE adapter and also has an Adaptec 2940UW
> controller. I am booting from the CDROM and the installation goes into
> an infinite loop on the following lines:
>
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
>
> This group of messages repeats forever...
>
> I also downloaded the latest unstable version of the recovery disk but
> this one just hangs right before these messages.
>
> How can I continue the installation? For the time being I can live
> without the SCSI controller, but the installation program doesn't seem
> to have an option to skip the SCSI probe (and no, I wouldn't want to
> pull out the card since other OSs are using it just fine).
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
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