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On 15 Feb 98 16:09:22 GMT, stefania@tecnogi.com (Stefania Petruccioli) wrote:

>I have a new scsi card (Mylex flash point LW BT 950) with 2 Quantum
>viking Ultra wide disks. I was trying to install RH5 on the Intel based
>machine, but the system halts as soon as the installation program
>start storing the RPMs file on the disks.

I have the same controller, but use the German Suse Linux Distribution. During the boot process
my customized kernel shows the following messages:

kernel: scsi: ***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.0.10 of 11 August 1997 *****
kernel: scsi: Copyright 1995 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz@dandelion.com>
kernel: scsi0: Configuring BusLogic Model BT-950 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
kernel: scsi0:   Firmware Version: 5.01, I/O Address: 0xE000, IRQ Channel: 11/Level
kernel: scsi0:   PCI Bus: 0, Device: 12, Address: 0xE6000000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7
kernel: scsi0:   Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Disabled
kernel: scsi0:   Synchronous Negotiation: FFFFSFF#FFFFFFFF, Wide Negotiation: Enabled
kernel: scsi0:   Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled
kernel: scsi0:   Driver Queue Depth: 255, Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 segments
kernel: scsi0:   Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3
kernel: scsi0:   Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
kernel: scsi0:   SCSI Bus Termination: High Enabled, SCAM: Disabled
kernel: scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-950 Initialized Successfully ***
kernel: scsi0 : BusLogic BT-950
kernel: scsi : 1 host.
kernel:   Vendor: IBM       Model: DCAS-34330W       Rev: S65A
kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
kernel:   Vendor: IBM       Model: DCAS-34330W       Rev: S65A
kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
kernel:   Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: MAVERICK 540S     Rev: 0901
kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
kernel:   Vendor: PLEXTOR   Model: CD-ROM PX-12TS    Rev: 1.03
kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 3 SCSI disks total.
kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB]
kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB]
kernel: SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1057758 [516 MB] [0.5 GB]

Do you have similar messages, when Linux boots? If not, then there's no support for your
controller, and as a result, any write to your harddisks must fail.

>I think that it must be a problem related with the scsi card, but the
>card is recognized by the RH5 installation. I tryed the same with
>slackware installation (3.3) but .. i have the same problem.

The Buslogic controllers have been supported by Linux for a long time, but the FlashPoint series
are Mylex products (Mylex bought Buslogic) and drivers for the latter have been added to the
kernel sources at version 2.0.29 (or 2.0.30 ???). So your Slackware 3.3 may be too old to
contain the FlashPoint drivers.

In order to give you better help, can you post your boot messages? It would help to determine
the source of failure. Be assured, the FlashPoint controllers are good products and they
definitely work well under Linux.

Have a nice fay and best regards.

Dieter Rohlfing