I've got a set of unofficial install-disk images, which have a newer version of the aic7xxx driver. You can find them at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/. Several people have reported using them successfully, though they were generally needing to boot off a SCSI drive.
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 07:12:49PM -0600, Avi Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying a completely new installation of Debian 2.0 on a machine > which boots from an IDE adapter and also has an Adaptec 2940UW > controller. I am booting from the CDROM and the installation goes into > an infinite loop on the following lines: > > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 > SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 > SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder > > This group of messages repeats forever... > > I also downloaded the latest unstable version of the recovery disk but > this one just hangs right before these messages. > > How can I continue the installation? For the time being I can live > without the SCSI controller, but the installation program doesn't seem > to have an option to skip the SCSI probe (and no, I wouldn't want to > pull out the card since other OSs are using it just fine). > > Any suggestions on how to proceed?