Linux install hangs on Initio SCSI card.

[Vaughn Treude]

Steve,
My internal SCSI chain is indeed terminated.  There's an external connector 
on the back which has nothing plugged in; I don't supposed that needs to have 
a terminator on it?
Actually, I gave up and installed Mandrake 9.1 without the initio.  I'll run 
it a while and see if it hangs.  Later (if it works OK) I'll plug the initio 
in and see if Kudzu can recognize and configure it.   Red Hat 8.0 did that OK 
before.  Then I'll see if the hang problem reoccurs.  I was wondering if 
perhaps my installation of RH8 was not configured correctly to handle power 
management, as the previous motherboard was 5 yrs old.  I'll cross my fingers.

Thanks,
Vaughn

On Thursday 24 April 2003 00:36, you wrote:
> 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
>
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