it means the driver doesn't match this device. You may need to ask on kernel.org for help. Or try a number of other aic drivers.
Hi,
I recently bought a Dell Precision 670 workstation with just one SCSI disk attached to
an Adaptec AIC-7901 HostRaid SCSI controller. I want to install Debian on it. knoppix has been my favourite choice on the last several occasions. But this time, knoppix is not able to detect the SCSI controller, I believe that the driver for this controller is aic79xx.o and I tried to supply it from a floppy disk using the modules-disk option on boot prompt (along with scsi_mod.o and sd_mod.o).
But when I do a "modprobe aic79xx", modprobe return the error
"init_module: No such device"
All the above modules on the disk were copied from a 2.4.27 kernel source module compilation and I am trying to boot 2.4.27 from knoppix as well.
Could someone please help me out with this problem ? How can I detect my SCSI controller and therefore the hard disk so that I can perform a hard disk install ?
I read elsewhere that HostRaid should be turned off on the SCSI controller and I believe that is already the case cos I just have one disk and the SCSI controller's BIOS does not show any option to enable/disable.
Any thoughts/suggestions/comments greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
it means the driver doesn't match this device. You may need to ask on kernel.org for help. Or try a number of other aic drivers.
You're right. The driver indeed did not match this device. Actually, BillyBobber has been trying to boot debian from his SCSI disk with the chipset AIC-7902 and has posted his messages on the General Support Forum here.
Here is a link I got from there for the correct aic79xx driver for AIC-7901/02
http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
Now I am planning to compile the kernel-source 2.4.27 with the above aic79xx module overwritten on it (via knoppix) and install a kernel on my SCSI disk. Do you foresee any potential problems with this approach ? Or is there a simpler way in knoppix to install a debian kernel image with the above aic79xx driver built in ?
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