fedora hangs on scsi install

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Hi All,
has anyone managed install fedora on a scsi drive useing the adaptec aha-2940uw card?

i have tryed booting with noprobe an dd but it will just hang on the aic7xxx driver or fail to find any disks.

any ideas

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I've got one of those cards.

It's worked fine under slackware 9 and Debian Woody, I think both use 2.4.18, I think. I wasn't trying to install to the disk, but the kernel recognized it, and spun up the disks just fine.

I was running on an old PIIX4 chipset at the time. What motherboard are you using?

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Hi,
I'm using an old intel nightshade board 'n440bx' with two pII 400's. the card and disks are found at boot, but then it just hangs on the aic7xxx driver at install time. i have tried using RH7.3 and the same thing happens. when i have tried using win 2000 server, the card works fine so i am guessing that its deffenatly the linux driver.

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Hey,
I have been having a look at the adaptec scsi driver problem again to day. i am now sure that is the adaptec driver for fedora and redhat that is not working. i have managed to boot knoppix just fine it has found and can use the drives through the scsi interface, using the adaptec driver it has in its system.

so my next question, does anyone know if the aic7xxx driver will be fixed in the fedora core 2 reliese?

and next is there a way i could now install fedora to the hard disks using knoppix as some form of go-between?

cheers

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