Hi there,
I'm new to the list, so please be gentle...
I have a machine with the OS installed onto SCSI disks attached to an Advansys
SCSI controller. This controller is not supported in Fedora so it's a bit of a
hassle to install it but once installed, everything's OK because the advansys
module is (or was, until very recently) supplied in both FC1 and FC2 kernel
RPMs in the "unsupported" directory. However, the latest Fedora errata kernel
does not contain the advansys module, so, looking forward to FC3, I'm
expecting to have to create a driver disk to support the card then.
I've found it very difficult to find up to date information on creating driver
disks, so I've had to cobble something together based on what little I could
find. Here's what I have:
Disk (VFAT floppy) contents:
modinfo
modules.cgz
modules.dep
pcitable
rhdd
modinfo:
Version 0
advansys
scsi
"Advansys SCSI Cards"
modules.dep:
advansys: scsi_mod
pcitable: (from /usr/share/hwdata/pcitable)
0x10cd 0x1200 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ASC1200 [(abp940)
Fast SCSI-II]"
0x10cd 0x1300 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ABP940-U / ABP960-U"
0x10cd 0x2300 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ABP940-UW"
0x10cd 0x2500 "advansys" "Advanced System Products|ABP940-U2W"
rhdd:
Advansys Driver Disk
modules.cgz:
2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/athlon/advansys.o
2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/i586/advansys.o
2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/i686/advansys.o
2.4.22-1.2115.nptlBOOT/i386/advansys.o
2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/athlon/advansys.o
2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/i686/advansys.o
2.6.5-1.358/i586/advansys.ko
2.6.5-1.358/i686/advansys.ko
2.6.5-1.358smp/i586/advansys.ko
2.6.5-1.358smp/i686/advansys.ko
This driver disk is intended to support FC1 and FC2 so far, my intention being
to support FC3 when it comes along. The actual modules were extracted from the
corresponding RPMs for the kernels. For FC3 I expect to have to build them myself.
I'm testing the driver disk by booting from the boot.iso CD for FC2, and from
the disk1 CD for FC1, then entering "linux dd" at the prompt. For both FC1 and
FC2 I'm prompted to supply the driver disk, the Advansys SCSI card is
detected, the module is extracted from the moduleball and loaded, apparently
successfully, into the kernel (I can see the detection of the attached SCSI
disks in the console messages screen).
On FC1, the installer then goes on to ask me if I want to use any further
driver disks, at which point I say "no" and it loads the tulip driver for my
network card from the distribution media and continues with the installation.
However, on FC2, the installer seems to hang with a nearly blank screen at
this point.
My question is: is this likely to be a problem with my driver disk, or with
the installer? If it's the installer, what's it doing and how could I work
around this problem? Could it be that booting from the disk1 CD for FC2 (which
I don't have at the moment since I downloaded the DVD image instead, but this
particular machine only has a CD reader) would improve matters? Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers, Paul.
