This may sound silly, but could your SCSI controller be a RAID controller?
If so maybe Slackware created the RAID on install. If not I would try to use
"cdrecord -scanbus" just to make shure the controller is working.
hope this helps. good luck
--- Tom Suzda <suzda@shawus.com> wrote:
> While I read this list daily, and I've learned lots, I'm really stumped on
> this one.
>
> I've got 7 systems running right now, (1) W2K, (2) W98, (3) Slackware 7.1.
> and (1) running Coyote for my firewall. No problems, all installed perfectly
> and running great for as long as I can remember.
>
> I'm putting together another system, dual PIII XEON on an Intel C440GX
> motherboard, 512 MB ram, 4 - 9.1 GB Ultra2 SCSI disks, and a cdrom running
> as the master on ide1. The motherboard has video, lan, and an Adaptec7896
> SCSI controller on board.
>
> I decided that this new system will be my workstation. With that in mind, I
> decided that I would run version 8.1 of Slackware. I was able to download
> the iso image and burn it to cdrom. The CD boots perfectly.
>
> Now the problem: If I boot the standard bare.i kernel, it doesn't recognize
> the scsi controller, so I can't load the s/w to disk. If I tell it to use
> the adaptec.s kernel, it goes through, finds the controllers, takes about 15
> minutes while it queries all the drives, and allows me to log in to the
> system. So I continue to try to fdisk /dev/sda, which tells me there is no
> such device. Looking at the /dev folder, I notice that there are no sd
> devices. Was this left off the iso images? If I boot my Slackware 7.1 cd,
> everything works fine, but I don't wan to have to install the 7.1 version to
> get the 8.1 version working..
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
>
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