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From: Colin Morey <gentoo@××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SCSI support in gentoo installation
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 16:35:24
Message-Id: 1020634492.3733.4.camel@toe.random-chaos.org.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] SCSI support in gentoo installation by Peter Permentier
1 On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 07:18, Peter Permentier wrote:
2 >
3 > Everything looks ok, and the online intall guide is pretty neat but for a
4 > minor detail: It would seem the entire installation assumes a complete IDE
5 > setup. My system is a 100%scsi system and i would like to report the
6 > following problem(s) i ran into. Perhaps these may assist you in tweaking
7 > the install scripts for the next release. When unpacking and running the
8 > stage1 tarball (I've tried a bit later using the stage3 tarball, but had
9 > same result) the scsi devices are detected during bootup, and all seems
10 > fine, but the /dev dir has no block devices set up for scsi (or so it
11 > seemed in my install)
12 >
13 please see below :)
14 > I'm not too familiar with linux yet to know if this is a general issue or
15 > if it was specific to this machine, and since that's the only machine i own
16 > that's SCSI enabled i cannot make the test on a different build as of yet.
17 heh, not to worry, at least scsi is reasonable well spread, unlike other
18 hardware:)
19
20 >
21 > Also, I've noticed that once the installation complete, when i reboot, the
22 > kernel loads the correct scsi module, but again doesn't find/create any
23 > /dev/sd?? block devices, and consequently fails to mount the root
24 > partition.
25 hmm, i'd advise making sure the scsi modules are compiled into the
26 kernel, not as modules, makes life a lot easier i've found.
27
28 >
29 > Could this be related?
30 > Do you perhaps have a suggestion how i might alleviate this problem?
31 >
32 > wfg,
33
34 eh?
35 > Peter Permentier
36 >
37 > P.S. FYI The system in question is a dual processor intel machine. The
38 > disks are UW scsi3 connected to 2 Adaptec AH-29160 adapters (3 disks per
39 > adapter).
40 nice.
41
42 > Should you require more specific info, please do not hesitate to ask.
43 >
44 o.k., in the cd installation documentation it says,
45 ==============================================
46
47 Now, if you want to be able to access any SCSI hardware that wasn't detected
48 during the PCI autodetection process, you'll need to load the appropriate
49 modules from /lib/modules, again using modprobe:
50
51 Code listing 2
52
53 # modprobe aic7xxx
54 # modprobe sr_mod
55 # modprobe sd_mod
56
57 ==============================================
58
59 Could you try this for me, and see if it works?
60
61 Cheers,
62 Colin Morey