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From: David Isaac Wolinsky <davidiw@ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 7892 Not Showing
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:40:11 -0400
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>>I am trying to boot Xen on a Adaptec 7892 SCSI controller and 
>>it isn't even going into the check routines for the disk!  
>>(Ie, no disks are found and I can't boot into Xen...)...  It 
>>works fine on FC3 and the drivers are compiled into the 
>>kernel (I tried both new and old...).  The machine is an IBM 
>>eSeries 330.
>>    
>>
>
>Are you using the -xen kernel? I doubt the -xen0 kernel has a driver
>compiled in for that card.
>
>Are you actually seeing the startup messages for the driver?
>
>[The -xen kernel has a wide variety of modules, but you'll need to build
>an initrd]
>
>Ian
>
>  
>
I compiled support directly into the kernel for the AIC7xxx driver, and 
it supposedly has support for the 7892.  No I'm not seeing start-up 
messages, just that the "SCSI subsystem initialized".

David