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"too many SCSI drivers" install message

Hello all

I was trying to install ASTARO on an HP Netserver with Symbios LVD bichannel SCSI controller and 4 18Gig disks. The installer informed me that my system would require "too many SCSI drivers"... and kicked me out !

What should i do ? I already tried to
deactivate the unused channel, and same old song....

Thanx

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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago

Hello,

you probably have several SCSI cards that need separate driver modules. Try to remove that ones you don't need...

Hope this helps,
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0 eldorado over 23 years ago in reply to Michel CHABANNE

hello

if you don't need all three disks try the following:

in system bios you can disable the second SCSI chanel. remove the data & power cable from the first three disks. the last disk remaining MUST be terminated.

greetings
eldorado
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0 Michel CHABANNE over 23 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

Ok I only have on boards SCSI modules
in that machine for now. SYMBIOS
2-channel controller, with 4 disks on
the first channel. How do i force installation ?
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0 Michel CHABANNE over 23 years ago in reply to eldorado

Thanks for answer
I tried to deactivate channel B in Symbios
SCSI BIOS. I removed three disks from
the SCSI chain. There is only one disk (ID 0), one processor (ID 5) and one active channel. ASL keeps telling me there are "too many SCSI devices".....
I'm hopeless :-(( Any ideas ?
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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago in reply to Michel CHABANNE

It's very strange... Could you do following and post the result:

- start installation
- type "bash please" instead of the first "yes"
- issue 'ls -1 /proc/scsi/'

Thank you,
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0 eldorado over 23 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

hello again

really strange!
it sounds like that the scsi-bus is not terminated. please have a look at this behavior, it's verry important for the scsi-bus.

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0 Michel CHABANNE over 23 years ago in reply to eldorado

Dennis

Thanx for the "bash please" trick (was it in the doc ?? :-) ). The output of /proc/scsi is
ncr53c8xx
scsi
sym53c8xx

Seems like the Symbios controller is found
double time... What do you think about it ?
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0 tom_01 over 23 years ago in reply to Michel CHABANNE

side note: Dennis will handle this, but he is not in the office until next week, so please hang on [:)]

thank you,

tom
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0 Dennis Koslowski over 23 years ago in reply to tom_01

For Michel:

thanks for your report, I know the problem now: there are 2 drivers for your SCSI adapter loaded. Unfortunately I can't promise you to solve this problem quickly, but I'll try my best...

Greetings,
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0 Michel CHABANNE over 23 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

Thanks Denis

I tried new 2.0 release and found the
problem is unfortunately still here.
Will you have time to fix that ?

Thanks a lot
Great work you did !

M.
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