Two SCSI controllers

[Kronenwetter, Paul]

I have a similar machine (Dell PowerEdge) with the drive and CDROM on
different SCSI busses.  The Red Hat 6.1 installation worked fine, once the
AIC7xxx driver was updated (see: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/ for an
update disk for 6.1)

What specific errors are you seeing?

-----Original Message-----
From: Wheeler John-FJW250 [mailto:fjw250 at email3.mims.mot.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:15 PM
To: AIC7xxx at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Two SCSI controllers


I apologize if this is inappropriate for this list. I have a dell precision
410 that has two SCSI controllers on the mother board. One is a AIC - 7880P
and the other is a AIC - 7890AB. The first one is connected to the CD-ROM
and the second is connected to the HD. I'm trying to install RH6.0. The
installation freezes after I confirm the CD-ROM is a SCSI device. I've tried
to search DELL's site for support on Linux, but because this machine was
loaded with NT they won't help. I went to RedHat and found an FAQ that said
something along the lines of finding one controller before the other but I'm
not sure if this is my problem. Finally, I also read something that
indicated that the CD-ROM should be on the same controller as the boot drive
for installation. I can't do this because they are different bus
architectures. The simplest solution (I think) is to copy everything to the
HD and perform the installation from there. I was just wondering if anyone
had seen this before and if so how did they resolve it.



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