On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 03:34, paul mccarthy wrote: > I'm sure this question has been asked before in various forms for various > drivers but I can't find the answer on the site. > > I have a scsi CD (HP CDwriter) running off an Advansys SCSI card (narrow). > > I had absolutely no problems with installing Mandrake linux up through the > various beta and RC versions of 10.0, at least as far as correctly supplying > a driver for the SCSI card. The problems all started in Mandrake-Community > 10.0 and continued in Mandrake Official 10.0. > > The script asks for an "additional drivers floppy." I have searched for > this and can't find any reference to it, except in messages from other users > who have searched for it and can't find any information. I have no floppy, > so the script then lists various SCSI drivers. I pick advansys.ko, the one > I always used before. Then the script terminates with an error message. > > This happens when I install with the "expert" command line option and the > "expert noauto" command line option. If I simply install without any > command line options, the script also terminates with the same error > message. > > I once came across something saying old scsi drivers were being deprecated > and one would have to use a driver off an earlier version of Mandrake by > copying the driver to a floppy. I haven't found this again. I thought at > the time this was for really old SCSI cards. Advansys cards aren't made > anymore, but they are only a few years old. > > My computer boots off of a SCSI hard drive with ID 2. That was the newer, > faster drive I added last. I tried resetting the ids on the other drives so > that the new drive would have ID 0, but I couldn't get the system to work. > > Incidentally, the same CDs will install Mandrake without any problems on a > non-SCSI computer, one with just plain old IDE CDs.
I do see and advansys module in the: /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/scsi directory - do you need to load them in order to boot? stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Character is what you are in the dark! -- Lord John Whorfin
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