aic-7850, redhat 6.0, and kernel boot problems

[al]

----- Original Message -----
From: al <aldaddy at erols.com>
To: <AIC7xxx at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 6:12 PM
Subject: aic-7850, redhat 6.0, and kernel boot problems


> Please help,
>
> I have a:
>
> Digital Priorsis LX-590 (basicly, a Pentium 90, 24 meg ram, within builtin
> AIC-7850 SCSI-2 controller,id=7)
>
> Compaq C2490A- 2.0 gigabyte SCSI drive, id=0
> Chinon CDS-535- SCSI Cdrom reader, id=6
>
> While booting from a Redhat LINUX 4.2 or 5.2 installation floppy
everything
> works fine.  When I boot from Redhat 6.0 installation floppy(from May
1999,
> RedHat distribution CD), I get this far:
>
> I start in "expert"
> select the 2940 SCSI drive option
> tried autoprobe with no options and options(aic7xxx=no_probe)
> it recognizes the compaq drive
> it doesn't recognize the cdrom and give the following error message:
>
>  scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 14, scsi0, channel 0, id 6,
lun
> 0
>  Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
>
>  it repeats a reset message ad nauseum and says it is "trying harder"
>
> I'm new to LINUX.  I downloaded the  5.1.18-2.2.10 patch, but don't know
how
> to patch an install disk.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Alan
>
>



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