Hallo Xiaoqin,
pardon for writing that bad exactness.
Disonnect doesn't mean to remove the disks from the bus (scsi-cable9
Disconenct is a SCSI feature. Normally it is enabled in the hostadapter
setup (ctrl-A). You can it enable/disable there for every SCSI-ID.
If the ctrl-A message does not show up on pc startup, it must have been
disabled in that setup. It work's anyhow, if you pres ctrl-A after the BIos
message of the aci7880 shows up during boot.
Hartmut
> HI Hartmut,
> Thank you for your information. All my disks on this machine connected to that
> controller. If I disconnect all of them, how can install finish?
> Thanks,
> Xiaoqin
>>Hello Xiaoquin,
>>I experienced similar problems during installation of SUSE-Linux 8.0 on e
>>dell 4500S with a Adaptec 19160 (using a aic7899) SCSI-Bios v3.00.
>>I had to turn off the disconnect for all connected disks to complete. My
>>errors located more recent, when copying files. But with suse this may be
>>different from you. Simply try the same. After installation I could reenable
>>the disconnect.
>>I still have problems with scsi0 rising partiy errors, but this an other
>>problem,
>>regards
>>Hartmut
>>>Hi,
>>>I have a HP Kayak XU 6/450 which has a AIC-7880 scsi controller with
>>>SCSI BIOS 1.32S8HP on the motherboard and there are four disk drives
>>>connected to it. The machine used to run Windows NT with no problem. Now
>>>I tried to install RedHat 7.2 on it. However, first the installation
>>>hang when it tried to load aic7xxx driver. I tried linux apic but it
>>>didn't work. Then I got around it by not probe and selected new
>>>experimental aic7xxx_mod driver. But when the installation moved on and
>>>it reached the point to create filesytem, it gave me the error message:
>>>"An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create
>>>new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
>>>problem."
>>>Anyone has experienced this kind of problem before? What is the reason
>>>and possible solution?
>>>Thank you very much for your help!
>>>Xiaoqin
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