Re: AHA-2940 SCSI won't boot
At 04:22 PM 2/23/1999 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>I asked this a week or two ago, but am still having trouble.
>
>As a recap, I have a Gateway2000 P5-200 with an Adaptec AHA-2940
>Ultra/Ultraw SCSI host adapter with four 2GB Seagate ST32155W drives. DOS
>does fine with it; Win95 does fine; WinNT does fine.
>
>When I try to install Hamm, Slink, or Potato, with the standard images or
>with the boot images from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/, I either
>get an infinite loop of trying to reset channell 0 (or something similar)
>or I get a total lock-up just after the point in the boot-up where 419
>instructions are downloaded to the adapter.
>
>I've tinkered with the Ctrl-A-accessible settings of the SCSI card's BIOS,
>but things either get worse or stay the same.
>
>I really hope someone out there has the knowledge to help me past this
>roadblock.
>
>Thanks!
>
More info -- Redhat 5.15 sits forever at the "Scanning SCSI bus..." screen.
So, does this mean I can't run Linux on this box?
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