Symbios 53C1010 controller problem

[Cokey de Percin]

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:03, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 13.07.2004 schrieb Cokey de Percin um 4:10:
> 
> > I have a Tyan 2500 (Thunder) board with dual channel onboard Symbios
> > 53C1010-33 controller.  Currently the system is running RH 7.3 with
> > patches, upgrades & Kernel 2.4.10.  When I try install Core 2, the
> > controller is found, but I get 'detaching/resetting' messages and the
> > installation stalls.  I doubt that this is a hardware problem as this
> > system has been running for several years with no problems and no
> > hardware changes and still runs correctly under 7.3.  I did notice that
> > Core 1/2 both seem to use a 'new' version of the Symbios driver, while I
> > use the older version in the sytems 2.4.10 kernel. I can't post the
> > error messages as I don't get far enought to capture them. I'd
> > appreciate it if anyone can shed some light on this problem.
> 
> > Cokey
> 
> You may boot into installation with "linux noprobe" and then manually
> choose the SCSI driver.
> 
> Alexander

Yes, I can do that but how does that fix the problem?  AFAIK, the NCR 
and original sysmbios drivers don't exist in Core 2, just Ver 2 of the 
Symbios driver.

Cokey 

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