Christofer, I encountered a similar situation when I installed my RH8 system (using an external SCSI HP CD-RW, connected to an HP laptop via an ADAPTEC AHA-1480 SCSI PC card).
Despite my strong efforts, I found no way of getting the OS installer to recognize the combination, so, I invented a work-around, which may be of help to you: I temporarily installed a Windows XP partition (type "vfat") on my hard disk drive (sorry, Linux people, M$ Windows - almost all versions - recognizes this hardware 100%) and loaded the contents of all three Red Hat CD's on that partition as ISO images. Then, during the first steps of the installation process, I redirected "anaconda" to use that partition as the installation media and everything worked flawlessly. Needless to say that, when regularly booting the Red Hat OS, the Adaptec SCSI PC card gets properly recognized and put in use... HTH, On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 08:50, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Christopher Alexander wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a IBM PC 365 (dual Ppro200, 128mb, 10gb IDE, Ensoniq sound, 3c905bt, ATI > > Rage Pro 64 PCI) with a Adaptec AHA-1540 ISA scsi card w/a SCSI HP 4x/8x/32x > > CD-RW. This system has tested fine under win98se and all components functioned > > fine. > > > > I attempted to install RHL9 using a boot disk (CD will not auto boot), and the > > install cannot find the CDROM drive. I think I need a a Linux driver for the 1540, > > but a cannot find one. Switching to another controller is not a option since all > > three PCI slots are taken by the NIC, sound, and Video cards, leaving me one ISA > > for the 1540. > > > > Plug and pray has been disabled in the BIOs, and all current firmware updates have > > been done per IBM's website. > > > > If I can find a 1540 Linux driver disk, I will be ok, can anyone point me in the > > right direction? > > Chris, please wrap all lines to 72 characters or less. > > I've had to do this with a 1542CP once. > > You are correct though - there seem to be no 1540 drivers in the modules > directory. > > Although there are heaps of other posts I found using google that seem > to say they got Linux installed with a 1540 just fine. > > Did you try a few of the AIC drivers? > > Regards, > Ed. > > -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, Software Engineer, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (ver.1.4) on Red Hat Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, cell-phone: +306946462857, fax: +302108054420, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
