Linux install hangs on Initio SCSI card.

[Vaughn Treude]

Bryce,
I suppose that's a possiblity, and I have seen IDE controllers do just what 
you're talking about.  I'm not sure why that would be a problem, because the 
system has two CD's (one SCSI, one IDE) and I'm installing from the IDE CD.  
I could dispense with the SCSI altogether but I hate to lose the Jaz drive.

But the plot thickens.  I wasn't totally honest about the 
previously-installed Red Hat running "OK."  It runs for 2-3 hours, and then 
hangs.  In the "messages" file, it says something like "Dazed and confused, 
do you have an unsual power-saving mode enabled?"  I'm going to try turning 
all the power-saving stuff off, and if not, I'll have to call the company.  
These problems could be related, but probably not.  :-(

Thanks anyhow, I'll keep researching it.  Any other hints would be greatly 
appreciated.

Vaughn


On the previously-installed Red Hat that still runs, the thing 


On Wednesday 23 April 2003 18:34, you wrote:
> Are you sure the mobo isn't switching resources around? My Albatron mobo
> would switch the PCI IDE card and the onboard IDS controllers so
> hda(onboard) became hde and the hde to hda.  I realize this is all PCI
> but your mobo may be doing it with the scsi too.
>
> On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 12:05, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Hello all:
> > I've just upgraded one of my systems with a Soyo KT333 Dragon Plus
> > motherboard.  It runs OK in an existing Red Hat installation, but I was
> > trying to install the newest Mandrake (9.1.)  This system happens to have
> > two SCSI devices (a CD and a Jaz drive) on an Initio-940 (or is it 941?)
> > PCI SCSI card, but the hard drives are EIDE.  The problem with the
> > Mandrake install is that it always hangs when it's trying to install the
> > drivers for the Initio. I've tried expert and text modes to no avail. 
> > The same thing happens with Red Hat 9.0.  I figure that it's probably
> > that the installer is expecting the SCSI controller to have hard drives
> > on it.  Is there a parameter I can  give it to force it to skip this
> > driver on the install?  Perhaps I can install it later.  I've noticed
> > that the pre-existing redhat installation did have the initio module
> > loaded and running.  Many thanks for any advice you can give me.
> >
> > Vaughn Treude
> > Nakota Software, Inc.
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