Re: Adaptec 2940AU
Michael Konrad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an adaptec 2940AU SCSI card with a seagate hard drive and a
> toshiba cd rom drive. I am trying to install slink. The rescue disk
> boots fine and everything is good up until the adaptec card is
> initialized.
>
> (scsi0)<Adaptec AHA=2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 19/0
> (scsi0)Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> (scsi0)Cable present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
> (scsi0)Downloading swquencer code ... 419 instructions downloaded
>
> At this point the install just sits there.
>
> Help?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Konrad
Yep, it happened to me too. Apparently the default kernel has support for several
SCSI cards, and with the 2940 there seems to be some conflict between them (or at
least the gist I got from earlier discussions). There's a site that has custom boot
and root diskette images for Debian that solves this problem. I don't have the URL,
but you can search the Debian mail archives for "2940" and "Kent West" and probably
find the posting where someone sent me the URL. It would be within the past 9 months.
Or perhaps in the next few minutes/hours, someone will again post the URL here. At
any rate, I wanted you to know that there is a solution.
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