Hello!

I tried to install Slackware 9.1 on an IBM Netfinity 3500 with an Adaptec SCSI adapter.

Very few steps after starting setup, when I treid to patition the HDD the sistem couldn't recognize it.

I also tried with the scsi compiled kernel but no result.

A Red Hat Linux recognized the Adatptec SCSI adapter.

Any help will be most apreciated.

maybe the slackware 9.1 boot cd kernel didn't supported that model. is it recent? maybe some kernel parameter is needed? (just wondering, i've never used raid before)

But why not try the latest 10.0 ?

If everything else fails, maybe you need to compile a kernel yourself and boot it from floppy and tell it to mount slackware cd as root partition.

Thanks for the answer.

After some studies I figured out a solution. I've booted the adaptec.s kernel image on the CD and it found the sda HDD.

But, surprise! after that the sistem didn't recognize my CD-ROM (ATAPI, hdc) anymore.

any hint?

I have often installed SLACKWARE on scsi I currently have 9.0 and an apatec raid plus. on the bo9ot disk you should be able to hit pf2 then pf3. this will show you several boot disks,

try the adaptec.s it works for me.
I do not have 10.1 yet I do have the beta 9.0

thanks dogbird

I just did this and that's the problem. When I use the adaptec.s kernel I can't see the ATAPI CD-ROM anymore.

that kernel should be just like the usual, plus the adaptec stuff, so i don't see the reason for that.
during kernel boot or in dmesg does it detect your cdrom drive?

yes, the dmesg reports the cd-rom unit as hdc but when I specify that unit as the source for the Slackware cd-rom it can't be mounted.

that's odd, does it say why?
can you mount it manually?

it says an error has occured when mounting the cd-rom

it also says the command line was:

mount -o -ro -t iso9660 /dev/hdc .....

this is when I choose the manual mounting option

if I choose automatic it doesn't recognize any cd-rom unit

Ol I have the adaptec wide scsi. And I run aptec.s from 9.0 all the time. I sometimes have loader problems. but it always cleans up. I mount
hec like this
#mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
it comes back with readonly staus it mght be the -o and ro confuse the loader.

in fact I am currently runing adaptec.s with a adatpec 2960W I have two 105S on the controller
one is windows and one is linux. the ystem
is a 1.gig cpu with 256 mega of memory and a 10gig hd partiioned into windows98 and linux 7.1/90 (9/0 ontop of 7.f1)
I wonder -- is your cdrom on the scsi adpter or is it apatpi?

There is a conflict in the ataptec divice if you are runing a scsi cdrom it has something to do with the descriptor

I have an antapi cdrom I do not see the problem.

I remember that I had problems with the installation -- every thing was readonly. I had to reformat and reinstall. the problem wen away. It was a corrupt init file i think. Because It did not go away until I reformated. scripts are often not removed on a fixup.

I hope that some of these suggestions help

Thank you very much for your help.

Unfortunately, I was running out of time. I installed a Red Hat 9 which had no problem with my hardware.

(

Thanks again.

Did you try changing the 'owner' from 'disk' to 'users'?

Installing on an SCSI disk is easy - you can simply choose between kernels to load when you boot. In the first text mode dialog you can choose to press F2 or F3 for more boot options. One of them, guess F3 gives a list of possible choice of different kernels including, for example adaptec.s if your SCSI adapter is an Adaptec. If it is not, there are some other SCSI kernels for you.

If none of them works, then it is a harder situation - you can try to compile the kernel like described under http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=49035 by enabling the necessary SCSI adapter driver. You have to compile it as a kernel part, not as a module!

A particular discussion on a situation compiling a kernel with SCSI support where also SMP support is enabled can be found under http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=216556
If you do not have a multiprocessor sistem, smp support is just unneeded feature compiled into a kernel, that will just slow the computer down and make it bigger so you should not have to enable it, unless you have a multiprocessor motherboard with 2 or more processors on it. But the topic is a god example and gives also some useful hints.

Thank you for the answer.

As I said I've installed RedHat. The computer is an Adaptec SCSI dual processor. The RedHat SMP kernel worked perfectly.

The problem was to install the Slackware distro.

It works now with RedHat so ...

Thank's anyway