Assuming that you're trying to install slink (2.1, stable branch) rather than potato (unstable), I've got a set of unofficial install-disks setup specifically for this situation. You can snarf them from <http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/>.
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:18:15PM -0800, Mock Ko wrote: > I recently downloaded the latest Debian and tried > installing it. > Unfortunately, it dies when it tries to initialize the > SCSI bus (Adaptec 2940UW). > After downloading the sequencer code, it says: > Failed in WD-7000 initialization. > > It then reports 1 host (my Seagate 9 gig), and then > it loops endlessly, getting SCSI diagnostic messages > reporting responses of all zeroes. > > I'm assuming that WD-7000 is another scsi driver that > it is getting confused into trying to init. > I've already tried the special installer disks for > adaptec users, but I get the same result. > > My system worked flawlessly with redhat for the past 4 > years, until I finally got pissed off with all the > crap that redhat keeps putting in their distrib and > their hopelessly polluted filesystem. > > Does anyone have any ideas for this? > I'm not adverse to booting a minimal system and going > from there. > Perhaps it is going funny because I have no IDE > devices?