Re: debian installer and adaptec 2940
Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable branch)
rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial
install-disks setup specifically for this situation. You can snarf
them from <http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/>.
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:18:15PM -0800, Mock Ko wrote:
> I recently downloaded the latest Debian and tried
> installing it.
> Unfortunately, it dies when it tries to initialize the
> SCSI bus (Adaptec 2940UW).
> After downloading the sequencer code, it says:
> Failed in WD-7000 initialization.
>
> It then reports 1 host (my Seagate 9 gig), and then
> it loops endlessly, getting SCSI diagnostic messages
> reporting responses of all zeroes.
>
> I'm assuming that WD-7000 is another scsi driver that
> it is getting confused into trying to init.
> I've already tried the special installer disks for
> adaptec users, but I get the same result.
>
> My system worked flawlessly with redhat for the past 4
> years, until I finally got pissed off with all the
> crap that redhat keeps putting in their distrib and
> their hopelessly polluted filesystem.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for this?
> I'm not adverse to booting a minimal system and going
> from there.
> Perhaps it is going funny because I have no IDE
> devices?
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