<solved>[RE: Cannot install FC2 or FC3-test1 on 29160 SCSI adapter (no html this time)]

[Kartoz, Michael F]

> FC2 is not detecting my hard drive on a 29160 SCSI adapter during
> install.  Can anyone help?
> 
> I'm trying to install FC2 on a machine with only 1 hard drive that is
> attached to an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller.  The AIC-7xxx driver is
> automatically loading and is finding my adapter (I can see this by
> hitting <F4> while module is loading.  However, my disk drive is not
> found.  When I get to automatically partitioning, I get "no drives
> found".  I had no problems installing and running Redhat 9.0 
> previously
> on this machine.  I also tried FC3-test1 but it didn't help.
> 
> When I hit <F4> while AIC-7XXX module is loading on FC2, I get the
> following:
>   <6>PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0d.0
>   <6>scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>   <4>        <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>   <4>        aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
>   <4>
>   <4>(scsi0:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 63, 16
> bit)
>   <4>scsi0: Unexpected busfree while idle
>   <4>SEQADDR == 0x1
> 

The solution is to use noprobe when booting the install CD and then
manually add the aic7xxx_old driver (instead of aic7xxx).  I had seen 
mention of using this driver to solve installation issues on older 
Redhat distributions but could not find this driver on FC2.  Turns out 
that it is in there but appears alphabetically under "O" for Old 
adaptec... and I was only looking in the "adaptec" section of the list.
Thanks to all who provided suggestions!

-Mike