cannot install linux debian

[Marco Antonio Vieira Assad]

Well, it was a cabling problem. The drives were 
recognized and the instalation started, so that 
confused me. But the technical staff found the problem.

Thanks for all the help.

Cópia Dragan Simic <dsimic at oracle.urc.bl.ac.yu>:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Marco Antonio Vieira Assad
> wrote:
> 
> I also have an Acer Altos 9100B, and I had
> similar problems,
> using 2.4.17 with new Adaptec AIC-7xxx driver
> compiled in the
> kernel. Altos 9100B also has two Adaptec
> AIC-7899 on board, and
> a backplane which carries drive bays. I'm using
> both controllers,
> with backplane in split mode, with one SCSI-160
> (what a waste! :( )
> on the 1st, and one on the 2nd channel.
> 
> My problem was in locking during kernel boot-up,
> more precisely
> during detection of SCSI devices. After a while,
> I realized that
> the problem is in Tagged Queue Depth, which is
> initially set to
> 253. So, I tried to set it to 16 during kernel
> configuration,
> recompiled the kernel, and it works perfectly
> since then. I think
> that Queue Depth can be set also by kernel
> parameters, but I can't
> remember that now. Sure, Queue Depth is tightly
> related to HDD's,
> so here are they: 9.1GB IBH UltraStar and 18GB
> Quantum Atlas IV,
> both SCSI-160.
> 
> BTW: Which motherboard is in Altos 600 ? Is it
> dual-cpu capable ?
> In Acer Altos 9100B, motherboard is M9LD,
> claimed to be dual-capable,
> but it simply doesn't work with 2 identical
> P-III 700MHz - works
> great only with one CPU... :( Anybody have info
> about that ??
> 
> Hope this helps ;)
> 
> > I'm trying to install debian 2.2r5 in an Acer
> Altos 600
> > machine, that has an aic-7899 controller. It
> freezes
> > during install, normally when trying to
> partition the
> > hard drive or checking for bad blocks. I made
> some
> > research in the internet and noticed that the
> aic-7xxx
> > module in linux have some problems.
> > I could install Windows NT4 in the same
> machine, so I
> > supose there is no hardware problem. AND I
> could
> > install the same debian distribution in
> another
> > identical machine, and that really annoyed
> me.
> 
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