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.
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