kubuntu and scsi drives

[Mike Reinehr]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:29 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> Isn't the aic7902W supported by the aic79xx driver?

	Apparently not. The documentation for the AIC79xx for my 2.6.8 kernel lists 
only the 7902A & 7902B chips, not the 7902W.

Mike

> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > I ran into something like this last fall as I was setting up my new
> > servers, which use Tyan Thunder Pro mb's. These mb's use the Adaptec
> > AIC7902W SCSI chip which is supported by the I2O modules. Unfortunately,
> > at the time, the I2O subsystem was not supported by the Debian installer
> > (at least, not the AMD64 installer), so I had to jump through some hoops
> > to bootstrap the installation. The SCSI drives just were not recognized
> > and there were no I2O modules on the install CD to load, even manually.
> >
> > cmr
> >
> > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 09:57 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, HarryG wrote:
> > > > I know some distros have problems booting from a scsi drive.  Is
> > > > Ubuntu one of them?
> > >
> > > huh?  I don't know of any Linux distros that have ever had this problem
> > > for years.  Perhaps with an ancient 2.0.x kernel where SCSI support was
> > > weak, but certainly not anything in the past 5-6 years.

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