I'm new to Linux so appreciate your patience. This is on a new machine (SIS648-based MB/2.4G P4) with full complement of CDs and hard drives (2 IDE hard drives/2 CDs - one read only, one writable), ati 9000pro vid card, etc. and a misbehaving scsi 2940UW -- thankfully the OS's are installed on an IDE drive!
I've done tons of reading/searching because I have the well-known adaptec 2940UW reset problem which causes boot to take 10-15 minutes as it "probes?" and resets each of the 15 scsi IDs multiple times. A couple of things bring me to the list -- First, when I install the 2.2.20 kernel there is no boot problem. The problem only occurs 2.4.xx kernels -- I started with Suse8.0 but have since turned to Debian 3.0r1. Here's what I've done based on research: I have flashed the card bios to 2.20.0 (the latest and greatest from adaptec site) (did this before my last install of Debian :->); I have 'turned off' everything related to scanning/loading bios in card setup (scsiselect); I have tried boot parameter aic7xxx-no_reset. The 15-minute boot problem persists with 2.4.xx except with the no_reset paramter - that one gives me a message saying it's loading I20 core and then hangs hard(no keyboard input, etc. - have to power down to reboot). I'm using the version of aic7xxx driver (6.2.4) that comes standard with debian 3.0r1. The only thing I've read about but haven't tried is using aic7xxx.old. I'd love to hear a better solution but if aic7xxs.old is the best (or only) solution I'd appreciate any pointers on how to force (or fool) Debian into using the .old driver instead of the default. Thanks in advance for any help. Gary __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]