Slackware 9.0 and scsi problem

[John Finkenbine]

Ted,

> John Finkenbine wrote:
> 
> >  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
> >
> >  
> >
> IRC  Slack  9.0  uses the new aic7xxx, you probably require the old
> aic7xxx driver. I can not remember what the old driver is called, I
> think its aic7xxx_old. but thats most likely your prob... HTH
> 
> -- 
> Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
> Westbank, B. C.
> 
> Powered by Slackware 9.0 

Okay, I tried saying at the boot prompt:  "ramdisk aic7xxx_old" but I 
got the same result as before, i.e., no scsi controller detected, but an 
apparent RAID array detected.  For what it's worth, I see messages 
during booting such as:

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
....
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
....
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays

I have gotten the same messages no matter what boot parameters I 
have tried.  Not sure what to try next.

John