Hello Experts!
I am trying to help a fellow with a Mandrake installation.
He is using an Iwill du3160 Ultra-160 SCSI host adapter, and seems
to be having trouble with it. He describes the problem to me thus:
Specifically what i am having problems with is the scsi
controller card. It recognizes the chip, qlogic, but can't
seem to communicate with the card. The kernel goes through
an endless loop trying to reset the bus or something along
those lines. It is trying to communicate wtih the card, but
just can't. I have tried both debian and mandrake distros.
debian 2.2 and mandrake 8.2
the kernel can initialize the onboard and promise ide
controller, but just hangs when trying to install the qlogic
driver for the iwill controller card. any suggestions? as of
now, i have taken out all of the other pci cards and tried
with no luck, tried in both the dvd rom and cdrw drive, i
have tried increasing and decreasing the pci latency for the
scsi controller with no noticeable effects, still hangs at
the same spot. Debian doesn't even recognize the card, only
mandrake tried to install the drivers with the endless loop.
Red Hat reports the adapter as being "Certified Red Hat Ready" or
some such, and the web has many accounts of the adapter being
supported by linux, but it is not specifically listed in the
Mandrake Hardware database (At least not the one on the Mandrake
website)
I will ask him to provide some greater detail of the errors the
install kernel is reporting, unless someone thinks they know the
solution already.
Cheers!
-Chuck
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