========================================== ubuntu 704 installer vmlinux and initrd, fails to mount some scsi drives, offlined. ========================================== Oldworld powermac 7300/180, internal scsi bus = 2 x hard drive + 1 cd. external scsi bus = 1 zip drive external usb 1 usb flash stick. /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 604e clock : 180.000000MHz revision : 2.4 (pvr 0009 0204) bogomips : 22.46 timebase : 11249783 platform : PowerMac machine : Power Macintosh motherboard : AAPL,7500 MacRISC detected as : 16 (PowerMac 7500) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 256K unified pmac-generation : OldWorld ====================================== Installer Alternate CD ubuntu704:::::: ====================================== Results frtom installer before failing to mount cdrom. uname -a Linux (none) 2.6.20-15-powerpc #3 Sun Apr 15 06:45:49 UTC 2007 ppc unknown /proc/scs/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560 Rev: S97B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM2100S Rev: 3016 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-8012 Rev: 1.0f Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Flash Model: Drive AL_USB20 Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 dmesg | grep scsi [ 152.900916] scsi0 : 53C94 [ 154.174178] scsi 0:0:5:0: Direct-Access IOMEGA ZIP 100 J.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 154.540944] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 158.335149] scsi1 : MESH [ 158.368828] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access IBM DDRS-34560 S97B PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 158.398443] scsi 1:0:1:0: Direct-Access QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM2100S 3016 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 158.685588] scsi 1:0:3:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-8012 1.0f PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 159.556707] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Flash Drive AL_USB20 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 164.723535] sd 0:0:5:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery [ 164.841393] sd 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda [ 174.881355] sd 1:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery [ 174.989819] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb [ 175.204392] sd 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi disk sdc [ 175.369089] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd [ 175.453273] sd 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 175.464744] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 175.475798] sd 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 175.486542] sr 1:0:3:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5 [ 175.497531] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [ 185.248676] sr 1:0:3:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery [ 185.284636] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy [ 185.304588] sr 1:0:3:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 ls -l /dev/s* brw-rw---- 1 root root 11, 0 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 0 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 16 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 32 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 33 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc1 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 34 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc2 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 35 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc3 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 36 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc4 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 37 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc5 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 38 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc6 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 39 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdc7 brw-rw---- 1 root root 8, 48 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sdd crw-rw---- 1 root root 21, 0 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sg0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 21, 1 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sg1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 21, 2 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sg2 crw-rw---- 1 root root 21, 3 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sg3 crw-rw---- 1 root root 21, 4 Jun 3 16:28 /dev/sg4 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 231 Jun 3 16:27 /dev/snapshot