Dell 1600sc SCSI probs with Slack 13.1
 

Hi - I hope I'm posting this in the right place. Forgive me if I'm not doing this right.
I have an old Dell 1600SC PowerEdge server with 2 SCSI adapters.

One adapter is on the mother board. - It is an LSI 'non-raid' SCSI adapter and about the only thing I can offer is that it displays "MPTBIOS-5.06.04" during POST.

The other adapter is on a PCI-X card. Also by LSI and it is a PERC4 SC RAID adapter.
My SCSI disks are in a hot-swap drive array and are connected to the controller ia a cable with only connectors on each end.
Obviously, I only use one adapter at a time.

The LSI PERC4 adapter (in the PCI-X slot) works flawlessly. - I was able to install Slack-13.1 with no problems and it runs really great.

My problem is that Slack 13.1 CD doesn't seem to recognize my on-board SCSI adapter. - It looks the kernel is seeing the LSI adapter and loading the Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.13 but then there's an ioc0: error - someting about a doorbell ack timeout.

After I finally boot, a 'fdisk -l' shows nothing.

Am I missing a module somewhere or what? - It's really not that big of a thing except I would like to get it working to run some bench tests between the on-board SCSI and the PERC4 adapter(s).

Thanks in advance.

Gary G.

Sounds like you are short of kernel capability. Find what you need, and load modules or compile in. instead of fdisk -l try cat /proc/mounts

Try a few other live cd's. Try opensuse first. I have found it to be the best one for server support by default.

Also Dell site did have drivers for linux for that I believe. Might have to go with scientific or centos.

Thank you all for your input.

After making my original post I tried the Slack 12.0 install and it worked fine with this "questionalble" SCSI adapter.

Looks like this is now a kernel issue somewhere between Slack 12.0 and 13.1.

I'll have a look around in that area of the forum.

Thanks again for your advice.

Gary G.