Hi all!
Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.32
seem to be doing the same thing during installation.
they're all saying "No SCSI attached!!!"

Why is it that only Redhat5.2 was able to see my SCSI drive
during installation?

All the other installers gave me one choice only --/dev/hda1
(Linux via Debian & Slackware) or /dev/wd0 (*BSD)-- or
nothing at all if the  UDMA  drive was unplugged. It's been
a few days, but I think I had to trick Redhat also, by making
the bios select scsi first and removing the ribbon from the
IDE drive. Anyway SCSI first returns 0, then the SCSI Drive
and Card appear to do some sort of download of driver info,
so that the Redhat installer eventually sees the SCSI drive.
Looks like Redhat has  a longer probe time than the other
installers. So what should I do? I was really surprised about
Debian since I've had 2.0 running on a m68k macintosh
for quite a while with SCSI disk chains. Tho this one is
a U2W scsi card with matching transfer speed IBM drive.

These other installers appear to probe the
system without looking at a BIOS selection, which for my
box can switch preferences between IDE and SCSI, which
looks similar to load order choice for floppy, CDROM, and C
drive, etc...

So is the only way to get these other OSes up is to unplug
PnP settings for the SCSI card? Or is there some other tweak
to solve this? By the way, only Redhat5.2 had a working
fips20, fdisk programs for FAT32 partitions.  Changed the
unused paritions to FAT16, then tried them with Linux native,
but no go with that either.

Any help is appreciated!

Brian Wildasinn
bwildasi@csulb.edu
notes: Asus p2b 440bx PII350, Adaptec SCSI Card 2940U2W;
Win98 & Redhat dual booting with Win98 requiring first priority
in LILO to avoid hanging the MBR. Basically I;'ve got a 4Gig
drive with equal parititions for each OS.

Here's some of the /var/log/messages:
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using
exception 16 error reporting.
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.0.36
(root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT
1998
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial
options enabled
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks
of 4096K size
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0
function 33
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache,
CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdb: VerH, ATAPI CDROM drive
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:253, ATAPI CDROM
drive
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:  hda: hda1
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
adapter> found at PCI 12/0
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255
SCBs
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407
instructions downloaded
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.2/3.2.4
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:        <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
adapter>
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:   Vendor: IBM       Model: DDRS-34560D
Rev: DC1B
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel
0, id 1, lun 0
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 8925000 [4357 MB] [4.4 GB]
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9
>
Feb  8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.

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