Linux install hangs on Initio SCSI card.

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Vaughn Treude wrote:
> 
> 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,

Vaughn, are your SCSI chains terminated?  Ie, the last device on a given
chain has termination enabled?  That sounds very much like my experience
with an external CDROM back in the olden days - ran for several hours
then hung.  Once I enabled termination it became happy.

Good luck,
Steve

> 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.
> > > Custom Software Design and Development