On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:58, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Funny, I've never had this much trouble installing linux.  Any more good advice
> (and yes the advice I've gotten so far has been helpful, didn't know things like
> being able to switch consoles during the install of the OS), seems I'm still
> doing something wrong.
>

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I don't think this is a linux problem - I think that this is a hardware
issue - probably having IRQ conflicts or something like that.

IIRC - you took that DAC controller out of a different box and that
would cause me to suspect something like that - or memory problems or
some other hardware issue.

See if you can disable all plug & play and legacy bios stuff in cmos -
and I don't know if there is a ROM configuration tool on the DAC card -
but if there is (the Adaptec stuff has you press control-A) - you might
find that disabling BIOS states - resetting it - making sure that
termination is proper (remember SCSI must be terminated and the internal
controllers typically can provide active termination) and you are more
likely to find the problem than to keep fooling with distros.

Craig