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Title: Mylex RAID DAC960PG hang at SME 6.0 Install
Post by: GaryChu on December 01, 2004, 11:04:11 AM
Hi All,

I have a working W2K system. I would like to replace W2K with SME 6.0 on this system.

System Spec: Intel N440BX MoBo w/ latest BIOS, two 500 MHz PIII installed, 512 MB, 1 IDE CDROM, 1 DAC960PG ( FW 4.06-0-08 ) w/ two IBM SCSI configured as RAID 1 set.

SME 6.0 graphical installation stops at " Loading DAC960 Driver ... ". After pressing ALT+F4, I see the loading progress is stopped at " <5> DAC960: ***** DAC960 RAID Driver 2.4.11 of 11 Oct 2001 *****, <5>DAC960: Copyright 1998-2001 by Leaonard N Zubkoff "

Questions:
1.  Does any one know  how to fix this ?

2.  Does anyone know how to pass boot options during installation ?  The reason is a Google link indicated that the hang may be attributable to a N440BX chipset with dual CPUs installed and configured locks with the embedded DAC960PG driver of SME 6 ( RH 7.3 ) installation.  A boot pass option of noapic may solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.
-GC