Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] BDI-4.20 Software Installation

You may want to check your SCSI buss termination. A lot of times SCSI
hardware errors look like software errors. Adaptec boards have a setup
screen that is usually available at boot time, or via the BIOS setup
screen. Assuming that your have one hard drive and one controller, make
sure the buss is terminated at the drive and the controller. Also, I've
had trouble with the Adaptec 'auto terminate' feature. I usually
disable this and manually terminate the buss.

-M

nwlinfo wrote:

>Greetings, I am having difficulties with the installation process
>for EMC/Debian combo (BDI-4.20) on a 5 yr old P3 w/ 512MB ram. The
>hard disk (about 8 GB) has been reformated and there should be no
>partitions. From what I can tell, my downloaded copy from
>www.wildrice.com/emc is probably okay (because checksum matches),
>and the CD initially boots. When the initial screen loads, I hit
>enter to continue. After a couple minutes into the installation, a
>dialog box warns that the hard disk drive cannot be found. I
>believe a driver was automatically loaded a little earlier during
>the installation (aic-7xxx driver), but it must be causing some
>problem. The computer has an Adaptec AIC-7899 SCSI controller.
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>At the dialog box, it seems I can choose between 3 other potential
>drivers that match the my hardware's description, but any I choose
>causes the installation to eventually stop. Any suggestions? Is
>there a more appropriate driver that I could download? Or is there
>a problem with the installer auto-selecting that first driver? I am
>new to Debian and ECM, so any help will have to be for a beginner.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>Mark H
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