Slackware 9.0 and scsi problem

[John Finkenbine]

Hi,

	Maybe someone can help me understand the following 
problem I'm having with Slackware 9.0 on a scsi system.

	The machine I'm using is an old HP LM server (486) with 
embedded scsi (Adaptec 274x type).  All I want is a simple console 
mode installation with no gui since the machine really doesn't have the 
horsepower to do more than that.  A number of other distributions 
have worked on this machine, including COL 1.2 and Debian 3.0 
("woody").  They just work - the scsi system is recognized and 
configured with no need for boot parameters, etc.  The driver that gets 
used is aic7xxx.

	Slackware 8.0 also works.  For this one I use a aic7xxx boot 
disk.  With slackware 9.0, things have changed.  There is an adaptec 
boot disk that supports aic7xxx, however, when I use this one it seems 
to detect the scsi system as if it is a RAID controller but no hard disk 
and no cd-rom are detected.  I have tried using a boot parameter of 
aic7xxx to "force" it to see a plain scsi card, but this did not work.  Are 
there some new magic boot parameters for adaptec drivers that I can 
use to tell it that I do *not* have a raid controller?  I've never had to 
use any boot parameters before so maybe I'm just completely 
misunderstanding what I need to do.  It wouldn't be the first time.  :-)

	Any insight would be appreciated.

John