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
i'd had got the same problem and those drivers didn`t work. Mayne you could
be luckier than me, but if they don't work check your hardware deeply and
look for addresses and IRQs conficts. I solve my problem changing the
motherboard. Noe those drivers that didn't work runs perfectly.
>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?
>
>
Good luck and if you solve your problem I'd like to know how do you fit it.
(sorry for this rubbish english).
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