Mandrake 10 and SCSI CDROM problem?

Yorick · 08-23-2004, 06:17 AM

Anyone know any issues with SCSI CDROM's and MDK 10. I installed 9.2 0n my Old Dell PowerEdge 2200 with no problems and the MDK 10 disks are OK because I've installed it on two other machines but both are IDE. Any work around would be appeciated.

The install gets to seeking the SCSI drives and finds all the HD's but has a meltdown when it arrives at the CDROM. CDROM is ID6.

Cheers
Yo

otish1000c · 08-23-2004, 06:49 AM

MDK 10.0 & the 2.6.X series kernel no longer need/use SCSI emulation. check your lilo.conf in the append line & see if there's an entry there for hd(X)=ide-scsi & remove it, then run lilo -v & reboot. here's an example of my old 9.2 lilo with scsi emulation.......

Code:

image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label="mandrake9.2"
	root=/dev/hda7
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="devfs=mount splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off resume=/dev/hda6"
	vga=788
	read-only

here's 10.0 with the line removed.........

Code:

image=/mnt/mandrake2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-15mdk
	label="mandrake10.0"
	root=/dev/hda12
	initrd=/mnt/mandrake2/boot/initrd-2.6.3-15mdk.img
	append="devfs=mount splash=silent acpi=off resume=/dev/hda11"
	vga=788
	read-only

to edit lilo, you need to be root. the easiest way (i find) is in terminal as root type koqueror (hit enter). this will open Konqueror file manager in root mode. then go to /etc/lilo.conf & open it with a text editor of your choice. remove the entry i stated above, save it, then in terminal as root type lilo -v (hit enter). reboot.

otis

michaelk · 08-23-2004, 07:45 AM

What is the make / model of the SCSI card?
When the install melts down switch between the different displays to see if you can find a specific error. alt-f2 thru alt-f6. You might need to use ctrl-alt-f1 to switch back to console mode.

Yorick · 08-23-2004, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by michaelk
What is the make / model of the SCSI card?
When the install melts down switch between the different displays to see if you can find a specific error. alt-f2 thru alt-f6. You might need to use ctrl-alt-f1 to switch back to console mode.

It's an onboard scsi system. Typical Dell server configuration uses Adaptec 7880 drivers

OK... on the main screen I get: Exited abnormally :-( Received signal 11

F3 screen
* Automatic parameter for method means returning cdrom drive
* have to insmod ide-cd
* needs cdrom
* needs ide-cd
* Suceeded ide-cd
* looking for ide media
* have to insmod sr_mod
* needs scsi_mod
* Succeeded sr_mod
* pci device 9004 8078 ffff ffff is "Adaptec-7880U", driver is aic 7xxx
* Have to insmod aic 7xxx
* needs insmod aic 7xxx
* Succeeded insmod aic 7xxx
* Have to insmod usb-storage
* needs usbcore
* needs usb-storage
* Succeeded usb-storage
* looking for scsi media
* SCSI/1 sda is a Seagate ST19171W
* SCSI/1 sdb is a Seagate ST19171W
* SCSI/1 sdc is a Seagate ST19171W

(Note: sdd is a removable drive and it wasn't in at the time. Next device in the chain is the cdrom)

F4 screen

<4> using anticipatory io scheduler
<4> (scsi0:A:0): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000 MHz, offset 8, 16 bit)
<5> Vendor: SEAGATE Model ST19171W rev: 2224
<5> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI Revision: 02
<4>scsi0:A:0:0 Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
<4> (scsi0:A:1): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000 MHz, offset 8, 16 bit)
<5> Vendor: SEAGATE Model ST19171W rev: 2224
<5> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI Revision: 02
<4>scsi0:A:1:0 Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
<4> (scsi0:A:2): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000 MHz, offset 8, 16 bit)
<5> Vendor: SEAGATE Model ST19171W rev: 2224
<5> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI Revision: 02
<4>scsi0:A:2:0 Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253
<4> (scsi0:A:6): 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000 MHz, offset 15)
<5> Vendor: NEC Model CD-ROM DRIVE 464 rev: 1.05
<5> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI Revision: 02
<4> sr0: scsi-1 drive
<6> Uniform CD-ROM Driver Revision: 3.20
<7> Attached scsi CDROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, ID 6, lun 0
<6> drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
<6> drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
<6> initialising USB Mass Storage driver
<6> drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
<6> USB Mass Storage support registered.

Of course I suppose it has to be reading the CD to get to this point but sommat screwy obviously happens at this point.