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Bug 128052 - Missing some vital scsi device drivers on installation disc
Summary: Missing some vital scsi device drivers on installation disc
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: IA64 Linux
: Normal blocker
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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Reported: 2006-03-29 17:35 UTC by Akita Bright-Holloway
Modified: 2006-09-01 13:29 UTC (History)
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Description Akita Bright-Holloway 2006-03-29 17:35:31 UTC
Only a few low level device drivers are being distributed on the install disc. Neither my LSI nor Adaptec scsi cards were supported, which kind of sucks, being that those are fairly big brands.. personally I'm interested in seeing the module

CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2

distributed on the disc, but I'm sure others would like some of the other drivers distributed as well.. 

This is true on the 2006.0, 2005.1, and 2005.0 discs (I didn't try any older discs)
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-30 00:31:15 UTC
Don't restrict bugs without any reason, please...
Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-30 06:10:38 UTC
Heh...

I was just about to mark this INVALID until I noticed that you meant on the *IA64* CD.  :P

We'll look into it.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-23 07:13:29 UTC
Unfortunately, it looks like this bug wasn't resolved for 2006.1, so I am leaving it open.  I'll make sure it gets fixed for 2007.0's release.
Comment 4 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-23 08:25:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Only a few low level device drivers are being distributed on the install disc.
> Neither my LSI nor Adaptec scsi cards were supported, which kind of sucks,
> being that those are fairly big brands.. personally I'm interested in seeing
> the module
> 
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2
> 
> distributed on the disc, but I'm sure others would like some of the other
> drivers distributed as well.. 
> 
> This is true on the 2006.0, 2005.1, and 2005.0 discs (I didn't try any older
> discs)

md5sum of the ISO would help -- 2006.0 had support for these AFAICR (It *definitely* supported anything LSI based as that would just go through the Fusion-MPT driver) and looking at my kernel config CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2=y... If you're still having problems please paste the boot log or try the ISO here which has a newer kernel -- may be an issue with the driver just sucking which has been fixed:

https://dolphin.ia64.dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/install-ia64-minimal-20060728.iso
Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-23 08:29:10 UTC
Akita: Looking at the date of this bug it's quite possible this was the case and I might have subsequently fixed this. Unfortunately I didn't notice this until now :-)
Chris: Next time you get ia64 bugs reassign straight to me plzkthx...
Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-23 08:46:23 UTC
plasmaroo: all releng members are *supposed* to be checking out release bugs... anyway... the kconfigs in CVS don't show this as FIXED, which is why I did not mark it as such.  Also, release bugs are *never* closed until the release which fixes it hits the mirrors.  It's how I track changes between releases.
Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-09-01 13:29:25 UTC
2006.1 is out and about... Enjoy!