On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:57:57PM -0500, Oliver Twist wrote: > greetings... :) > > I am trying to install etch RC1 on a old machine with an Adaptec aha1540CF > ISA SCSI card, but cannot seem to get debian to detect the controller. > > My system: > ASUS P2-99 with 433MHz Intel > 256MB ram > AGP 4MB vid card > 1 - 40 GB IDE HDD > Adaptec 1540CF with SCSI CDROM attached. > <aha1540 problems> Hi Oliver, you may want to consider installing a basic system an alternate way like taking the HD out, putting it in another system, install basic system, then putting it back in the problem system. At this point you can then use this basic system to diagnose further. > > I have read through the archives. The aha154x is mentioned a number of > times, but people seem to be able to get it working by changing the card > address, specifying aha1542=xxx as a boot option, etc. > > Unfortunately, I do not have a SCSI HDD to test the problem, just a bunch > of different SCSI CDROMs/CDRWs. Can anyone tell me how to see if linux is > at least seeing the controller itself, if not the CDROM? > > (also, I don't believe it is bad hardware, because I've done test installs > of WinXP and it seems to work fine) just cannot get linux to see it! :( > Really? That's odd. > any thoughts or experiences? If you boot any of the Debian installes or Knoppix, you can jump to a console (CTRL-ALT-F1) and check to see if anything shows up in '/var/log/messages' or use 'dmesg' for info. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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