Hi

I´m trying to install SUSE 7.3 on a Sun Ultrasparc10. My problem is that the disk I have installed in the system is a SCSI UW with a Adaptec 29160N as the hosts adapter. Installation starts fine but when it gets to the hard disk identification is says there are no disks. I have tried the HDD and adapter on another system and it fine (no id or termination problems).

I remember when I first installed this adapter on a SCO box it needed a boot time loadable.

Does this apply to LINUX as well? If so where can I find the drivers as there´s none on the adpatec site.

Thanking you

Tony

Its much more likely that the kernel just doesn't have support for the card compiled in, which it probably needs. I noticed SuSe's default kernel was rather module heavy... its about 1/2 the size of the one I compiled for my Ultra 5.

Support is in the aic7xxx.o module... which SuSe made as a module, not as part of the kernel... typical. Poking around the SuSe site I can't find any alternative install kernels. Making your own bootdisk would do it... that's all I can think of offhand. I could check through my install disks to see what cute things they have under bootdisks, but they're at home.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi

Thanks for such a quick response but I need you to explain how do I creat a boot disk including the support for the Adaptec 29160N.

Surely when the boot disk being created it´s using the kernel thats already been compiled.

I also have treid the following by installing SUSE on a IDE disk which worked fine. Is it possible to install device drivers from the source code?

Please excuss my ignorance and once agian thaks for all your help

tony