From: murray evans <m.evans@rdg.ac.uk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hostRAID, AIC-7901, disable?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:15:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cpl0tm$4sp$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bbfa52890412131309234b2d09@mail.gmail.com
Colin McDonald wrote:
> Cntl+A into the SCSI bios & disable it.
>
> Try that.
>
>
Like I say, the setup tool has no option to disable it. this includes
both the bios, the the Adaptec SCSISelect tool (i.e. Ctrl A). Although
the instructions do insist it is there, we've had a very thorough look,
and it's not.
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:04:08 +0000, murray evans <m.evans@rdg.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>> We have recently aquired a new Dell Precision 670 workstation, on which
>> we intended to install linux, (Suse 9.1).
>> In the install, is reports it can not find any hard drives.
>> We think we have tracked this problem down to the AIC-7901 hostRAID
>> SCSI controller. From what I we can gather, linux no longer has
>> drivers for hostRAID hardware. We don't care about having RAID, just
>> a working system, so we would be content to simply disable the
>> hostRAID. the problem is, the setup tool does not have any option
>> to disable hostRAID.
>>
>> Has anyone come across a solution? Is there a driver I don't know of?
>> Is there a way of disabling hostRAID?
>>
>> *PS: From the SuSe install, when we try to add the appropriate SCSI
>> module for the AIC-7901, it fails.
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-13 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-13 16:04 hostRAID, AIC-7901, disable? murray evans
2004-12-13 21:09 ` Colin McDonald
2004-12-13 21:15 ` murray evans [this message]
2004-12-15 17:49 ` Doug Ledford
2004-12-21 20:41 ` linuxraid
2005-03-17 9:05 ` mike_rothon
2005-03-20 12:29 ` hostRAID, AIC-7901, disable? - FIXED mike_rothon
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2004-12-15 18:15 hostRAID, AIC-7901, disable? Salyzyn, Mark
2005-03-04 19:42 strange behavior of a raid5 array after system crash hpg
2005-03-04 20:10 ` hostRAID, AIC-7901, disable? Stefan Eckert
2005-03-04 20:28 Stefan Eckert
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