SCSI adapter preventing boot

[Stewart C.Russell]

Thanks, Madison, but on re-reading my message once 
it got to the list, I realise I had failed to ask 
a smart question. Sorry.

The machine boots the kernel okay, it's just that 
while the 2940 is initialising, it breaks. None of 
my drives boot from the SCSI card.

Although the card worked fine under 2.4.20 under 
Red Hat, it seems to be unhappy with Gentoo. I 
guess the two things I can try are:

* try rebooting Red Hat 7.3 -- if that works, it 
must be the SCSI driver.

* try fixing the BIOS, as early reports of the 
"new" aic78xx driver seemed to create identical 
error messages to the ones I'm seeing if the BIOS 
is set to some weird performance-enhancing 
settings.

What other issues might I need to consider?

I've half a mind to get an old 2906 and see if 
that works. They are about $20, so no great 
expense there ...

Many thanks,
 Stewart

(who likes Gentoo; quite takes me back to 
the old days of Linux, where it would take lots o' 
troubleshooting to get a machine working. But I 
don't recommend it for those with a low tolerance 
for manual configuration.)


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