scsi install

[Stephen]

Would be nice to plug in IDE drive but user has them pluged with some 
unknown connector I can ot remove

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

> --- Stephen <sfielding7 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
>>Good day
>>
>>I am trying to install mandrake on a P3 733 MHz Asus CUBX system
>>with a adaptec AHA 2940V2W scsi card device 5 is a Toshiba 640 cdrom
>>mandrake 10 will not detect cdrom keeps asking for driver and none on 
>>list work.
>>On some chooses it asks for a parameter I have passed the device nbr (5) 
>>but now luck.
>>
>>has any one set up a system with no IDE drives
>>
>>This inherited system has W98 running and all hardware works
>>
> 
> 
> many insallers unfortunately assume the cdrom is /dev/hd?, I've come across
> this on several others. In every situation the easiest method was to
> temporarily plug in an IDE cdrom to do the install and pull it later..
> Have you checked on mandrake's forums?
> 
> 
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
> 
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