FC1 on Intel 440GX

[Stephen Bodnar]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 10:36, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> I am having an issue installing FC1 on an Intel 440GX motherboard, and
> specifically the problem appears to be with the Adaptec AIC7xxx driver
> which just hangs, and anaconda never does find any disks to install
> to. I have had this issue in the past with other machines, and in the
> past the apic vs noapic option to the kernel seemed to work, as did
> pulling down the correct Adaptec DUD and using that as my driver disk.
> However, none of these are working, and i was wondering if anyone else
> has found this problem and a possiblem solution.
>  
> Any resonse would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Michael Weiner

The trick, as another pointed out is to load the aic7xxx_old module.
I have an Adaptec 2940 running my tape drive, and with the aic7xxx
loaded, modprobe shows the scsi card and tape drive, but it will not
actually run. tar -tvf /dev/st0 would just return "device not found".
As soon as I do an insmod aic7xxx_old it comes right up.

Stephen