Slackware 9.0 and scsi problem

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 8:11 am, John Finkenbine wrote:
> > On 05/20/03 14:13, John Finkenbine wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > A different distro?
> >
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> As Lonni says, I *could* try a different distro.  But, I have the
> feeling tha Slack 9.0 really ought to work, if I only knew what I was
> doing wrong.  I am most intrigued by Ted's recollection that the
> aic7xxx module has changed and that I need to use an older version.  I
> looked at all the docs I could find on the 9.0 CD, but saw no mention
> of changes to this module.  Ted couldn't remember for sure what was
> the name of the older version and I have had no luck finding out on my
> own.  Any ideas what the name is and where it is to be found during
> installation?
>

Ted was right on all accounts.  The module name is aic7xxx_old and it was 
written by someone at RH.  The newer module was written by.... 
<drumroll>  Adaptec and it sucks, at least with the 2940x group of 
controllers.  Continuous errors.

However, the new module has been around for a couple of years so the 
changes are nothing new....  Check to see what 8.0 was running.  They 
may have switched to using the new module in 9.0.

> Or, I could just use Slack 8.0, which works fine, but that would be
> too easy.  :-)
>
> John
>
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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         05/21/03 
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