Re: ACARD AEC6710s SCSI card hangs on boot

From: Brian (brian_at_beepbeep.invalid)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:26:27 +0100

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 22:47:38 +0000, Justin Levy wrote:

> New user here. Tried the new SUSE LINUX for i386 Live-Eval - was
> impressed with hardware detection. Picked up everythnig in my system
> including Promise SATA150 TX and ACARD AEC6710s/6712s PCI SCSI (well,
> thats win's description of it) card.
> So, downloaded and installed SUSE LINUX for i386 Personal, but on first
> boot, the AEC671x modules load, my external scsi burner attached to the
> ACARD winks its lights a couple times, then the system just sits doing
> nothing. A Ctrl-Alt-Del unloads the module, but then the system just
> sits and waits again.
>
Are you sure it's waiting on the SCSI card?
My SATA controller (and I've seen posts for similar things with other SATA
controllers) has a *very* long timeout on boot when scanning for attached
devices - have you just left it alone for (say) 15 minutes to see what
happens?

If it *does* boot Ok, then you can tell the boot process to not bother
scanning for SATA drives that aren't connected.
(shout back for further details if it does eventually boot! ;)

B. 

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