Just fyi, I think I finally did fix my SCSI problem (had a 1 in 3 chance of booting without the infinite reset errors). The problem was that I have a device that was incorrectly set to UW instead of U (40 max trans rate, instead of 20). The old aic7xxx driver I had in RH4 somehow didn't have a problem with this, it would simply renegotiate transfers to the correct speed... I changed the setting in my adaptec card, rebooted with the aic7xxx=extended,no_reset flag, and all's well.
-- quiet rob ----------- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Reagan Doose wrote: > > > I am trying to install Debian 2.0 from a Bootable, SCSI CD. I have a > Dell > > Dimension XPS H266 computer with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter and a > 2GB UW > > hard drive. > > > > All starts off well, I get the boot prompt, and the system looks like > it is > > coming up, then I get this: > > > > (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 16 during SELTO. > > (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 225 not valid during SELTO. > > SCSISEQ = 0x5a SEQADDR = 0xh SSTATO = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x8a > > > > This is repeated forever. > > > > This problem did not occur two days ago when I installed RedHat 4.2, > so I > > don't think it is a hardware problem. > > I have a computer with an adaptec 2840 controler, and had the same > problems. The only way I was able to get the SCSI on line was to > install a custom kernel with support for ONLY the adaptec controller > built in. Trouble is that the stock kernel supports MANY different > kinds of scsi controllers and probes for the one you have. This > probing screws up some adaptec models into FUBAR. Also you MUST > enable the bios on the scsi card or linux won't be able to use it. I > ended up puting an IDE cd rom in the computer to load a base system, > then re-built the kernel. Now I can use the scsi cd. If you have a > second computer, or have access to another debian system you can > replace the stock kernel on the boot floppy with one having only the > adaptec (or what ever) driver. > > In my case adding lilo parameters did not help. > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
