Just got my new Dell Precision 670 which will become my Linux box. It seems that the 9.2 distro does not like SCSI hdd because I alwas get the message "No hard disk were found. Please check your hardware!" so no automatic proposal for partitioning is possible.
System Config is Intel Xeon 3.4GHz CPU, 2 GB Memory and 2 SCSI Seagate hdd 73MB each and an AIC-7901 "controller". I have no clue what additional module I should load with what parameters in order to get my disks usable ...

Thanks for help

Check to see wether you are using a kernel with SCSI support if not use a different one. There should be several on the CD. If not you could compile your own with SCSI support.

Thanks, but yes it is a kernel with SCS support, at least it seems to as the generic mid level SCSI driver is loaded ... As newbie I am always suprised with the # of times the possibility of compilation is mentioned in the linux world. Remember, my hard disks are empty of any single bit of data and/or programs.

Thanks again

There are a number of ways forward. SUSE should detect the existence of SCSI. I do not know your hardware at all, but have you started with the BIOS? For different reasons I had to specifically tell the BIOS boot sequence to select SCSI ahead of IDE.

I assume the device is a hardware RAID? I believe, but do not know that hardware RAID was broken in one version of the 2.6.x, but has recently been fixed - www.kernel.org might have more to say

Is there any way you can skip HW RAID and try SW RAID?

Can you temporarily remove one of the drives to try and isolate the problem area?

FWIW YMMV etc

Further thought - get Knoppix 3.7 and boot it using the 2.6 kernel and see if you can have a poke round?

Hi and thanks for your quick answer.
Back to yours proposition Yes it is a driver with RAID capabilities but No I am not interested at all in activating RAID. These should simply be 2 x 73GB SCSI disks.
I will try the sequence and all the tricks you proposed, but have to do it latter ...

Maybe RAID needs to be de-activated in the BIOS.

I check it and it is turned off already ...

I another thread, someone had problems detecting a SATA drive in SUSE 9.2

I can't find that thread right now, but this guy succeed by loading the required driver in 'Manual Installation' mode. Maybe this helps...

EDIT: here it is: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...71#post1518171

(effectively a cross post and sorry for this) I have had a SATA drive on an ASUS board since 9.1 When I upgraded to 9.2 I did run into the "minor" problem that due to rearranging how SATA was handled in the system I had to re-install rather than upgrade but handling SATA has been nigh-on transparent. There is another problem here that needs to be investigated.

A search elsewhere indicates problems with the adaptec AIC7901 - I doubt if that cheers you up

long thread here

http://www.issociate.de/board/post/1..._disable?.html

Which seems to indicate that there is a possible solaution. However it also confirms that there is a lot of grief out there with the chipset.

The search also reveals that drivers have been available for RedHat since 8.2

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/index2....df=1&id=118185

indicates a relevant bugfix for SLE9

so there's probably a compiled kernel ready and waiting on the SUSE ftp site

Chspter 8 of the Admin guide tells how to get hold of a new kernel

Here's the most useless answer of all - I bet it's all fixed in SUSE 9.3 - only a month to go