Mandrake 10.2, 2006.0 and Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller 1944

On Friday 28 July 2006 21:18, F. Baker stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

Nope. Mandrake-Mandriva has always supported this controller as of the first versions I installed - i.e. Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack, back in 1999.

I have two of those adapters in my machine as we speak - albeit that I'm running avanillakernel now.

It's the same thing. ;-) The 29160 and 29160N cards - I have both of them - feature a 7892A chipset. ;-)

The temporary hang you are experiencing is in fact not a hang but it is a moment of non-verboseness when the kernel scans the SCSI bus for attached devices.

If you are installing from a downloaded and self-toasted CD set or DVD, then it's possible your download was corrupted. It is advised to *always* check themd5sumson the.isofiles before burning them to media, and to use quality media and a low burning speed.

Now, for clarity's sake, it is often the case that a Mandriva installation CD uses an older version of the kernel it installs on the hard disk, but this should not have any effect on the hardware detection since the 29160 controllers are already supported by thevanillakernel tree as released by Linus Torvalds and all Mandriva does to its distribution kernels is add extra functionality patches.

The driver for the Adaptec adapters are not reverse-engineered, by the way. They are contributed to the original Linux kernel by Adaptec themselves and are released under the GNU GPL.

If you still have the.iso's,check theirmd5sumsagainst the ones on the mirror site. If they don't match, you'll have to download again - pick a different mirror if needed. Also remember to burn at low speeds and on quality media.

Hope this helps... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)