I have recently purchased a DELL PowerEdge SC420 with an Adaptec 39320 U320 SCSI controller.

I have tried the adaptec.s boot image from the slackware 10.1 cd but it doesn't see the scsi controller.

Does anyone have a working boot image or can you point me to a site with one to download?

Many thanks.

I don't know if it would help you but I've found following link.
I'd suggest to do some search before asking. And remember, google is your friend.

Thanks for the reply.

I agree about using google before asking. I have been google(ing) for days but haven't managed to find anything that seemed to help. I was hoping someone knew something that google hadn't found.

Initially, I tried the slackware 10.1 adaptec.s because the website description looked very promising:

adaptec.s: This bootdisk supports most Adaptec SCSI controllers, including these models: AHA-1510, AHA-1520, AHA-1522, AHA-1522, AHA-1740, and AHA-2825. The AIC7xxx models, which include the 274x EISA cards; 284x VLB cards; 2902, 2910, 293x, 294x, 394x, 3985 and several other PCI and motherboard based SCSI controllers from Adaptec. Adaptec's I2O based RAID controllers (including OEM Adaptec RAID controllers used by HP and Dell, Adaptec branded AAC964/5400 RAID controllers, and DPT SmartRaid V cards).

When this didn't seem to work I started with google. The best I came up is to install an IDE disk, load slackware, and build a new kernel with the appropriate SCSI support.

BUT, just now I'm not sure I can put an IDE disk into the server and I don't have a spare box to load slackware 10.1 on either.

Anyway, I'm not at the end of the road yet and thanks for your reply.

mc2000,


Just to let you know, your suggestion about installing and compiling on an IDE harddrive first, then moving everything over, worked out perfectly for me. I was also unable to find a bootdisk that supported AIC79xx for Slackware- but if you install on an IDE first and compile AIC79xx support into a newer kernel, you can then transfer everything over. The following FAQ came in handy for the file transfer:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...k-Upgrade.html everything works out good.

Linux is such a beautiful thing.