Michael Necaise wrote:
>
> Got any suggestions what it might be?
> The drive and controller have been used successfully with windows on
> the primary partition - they are good. I've disabled all of the plug
> and play features in BIOS. It's a standard PentiumII machine (Gateway
> G6-266); the only added hardware is the SCSI controller with Seagate 9GB
> drive, a 3com NIC and a STB virge/GX video card (all PCI cards). The
> CDROM is on the IDE controller.
> The installation software correctly recongnized the Adaptec AH-2940
> controller. Fdisk sets the partitions OK. But, the installation
> software complains that it can't access the disk to format the
> partitions.
If I'm correct (Mike, am I?) the Redhat 5.0 boot disk uses my aic7xxx driver
patch. Unfortunately, there is a bug in that driver version that can cause
problems on certain machines and hardware, although it usually on shows up
with CD-ROMs and tape drives, not disks. If someone would put together a
5.0 boot disk and instructions like I did for 4.2 (look at
ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/boot_disks/5.0.7/RedHat-4.2) then I would
be happy to archive it on my ftp site. I just don't have the facilities to
create a "genuine" RedHat-5.0 boot disk since I don't have any 5.0 devel
environments. Not only that, but my 4.2 boot disk isn't really a genuine
boot disk either as it doesn't support things like the PCMCIA card services,
etc. The other problem is that my aic7xxx patches are geared against
2.0.33, and integrating them into 2.0.32 that RedHat uses for 5.0 might be
somewhat of a chore, although if they already have my patch in there (the
Nov05 patch probably) then it's not nearly so hard, there would only be a
few rejects to work out.
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