[newbie] SCSI Detection problem

[Bernardo de Barros Franco]

Hello,   I have tried to install Mandrake 9 and 10 to no avail, they both freeze after installing the module for the scsi controller, before (while?) detecting the scsi hds attached to it. The funny thing is that I got the installation cds for OpenBSD 3.3, Suse 9 and Red Hat 7.3 all to detect my both HDs out of the box. My configuration (as lspci and dmesg from the Suse installation): 1 VIA-chipset motherboard with 512 RAM DDR400, a Pentium 4 1.8ghz processor, a CDROM on ide0 and a Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D SCSI controller (id 7) that controls 2 IBM-PSG DNES-309170W 9.1Gb hard drives on ids 0 and 1. After booting from the cd (Mandrake 10) and trying to install with the 2.6 kernel I get a error when insmodding the aic7xxx. Since I’ve read somewhere that that is expected with that kernel I try an alternate boot image (the 2.4 kernel one). The module is installed ok (version 6.2.36) and detects AIC-7881U. My controller is found correctly but then when it should list my HDs, it just stays there forever. I have tried 2 different medias for the version 10 install and tried once other media with version 9 which had the exact same problem. I am feeling particularly frustrated since Suse 9 has apparently the same aic7xxx module version 6.2.36 and detects the HDs without any issues. As stated above the detection also was successful on Red Hat 7.3 and OpenBSD 3.3, but I really would ratter use Mandrake ;)   Thanks in advance, Bernardo de Barros Franco