[Mimedefang] OT: adaptec scsi card help with fedora

[Paul Heinlein]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Andrew Jayes wrote:

> Sorry its way off topic, but I am trying to get a new mimedefang
> server up and running. Problem is it's the Intel nightshade board.
> I've disabled the symbios scsi chip and got a pci Adaptec aha 2940uw
> card to replace it. Trouble is where fedora used to hang on the
> smybios driver install it now hangs on the Adaptec driver install
> aic 7xxx. I have tried the Linux dd install with a driver disk and
> the Linux noprobe, neither of which will recognize the disks when it
> gets to partition time.

Ah, it's a known issue, but the workarounds aren't guaranteed:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=107880

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at cse.ogi.edu>