Linux install hangs on Initio SCSI card.

[Bryce C]

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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=20
> motherboard.  It runs OK in an existing Red Hat installation, but I was=20
> trying to install the newest Mandrake (9.1.)  This system happens to have=
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> SCSI devices (a CD and a Jaz drive) on an Initio-940 (or is it 941?) PCI =
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> card, but the hard drives are EIDE.  The problem with the Mandrake instal=
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> that it always hangs when it's trying to install the drivers for the Init=
io. =20
> I've tried expert and text modes to no avail.  The same thing happens wit=
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> Red Hat 9.0.  I figure that it's probably that the installer is expecting=
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> SCSI controller to have hard drives on it.  Is there a parameter I can  g=
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> it to force it to skip this driver on the install?  Perhaps I can install=
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> later.  I've noticed that the pre-existing redhat installation did have t=
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> initio module loaded and running.  Many thanks for any advice you can giv=
e me.
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> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
> Custom Software Design and Development
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