Bug 157013

Summary:	Installer hangs when partitioning SCSI drives on Adaptec AHA-2940UW
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Phil Houstoun <pjhoust>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3	CC:	fche, pfrields, wtogami
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Description Phil Houstoun 2005-05-05 23:12:23 UTC

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Description of problem:
I get through most of the install of FC3 just to the point where the drives are about to be partitioned and then the system totally hangs.  Have tried installing from a SCSI CD-ROM and an ATAPI CD-ROM with same results.  As long as the AHA-2940UW is involved, the install fails. Replaced AHA-2940UW with a Symbios 22801 and all works fine.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Ensure AHA-2940UW in a PCI slot and SCSI drive attached
2.Attempt to install FC3
3.
  

Actual Results:  Install hangs at disk partitioning

Expected Results:  Complete install of FC3 and happy user.

Additional info:

Install of SuSe 9.2 with exact same hardware config succeeds smoothly!

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-07-15 20:17:41 UTC

An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which
may contain a fix for your problem.   Please update to this new kernel, and
report whether or not it fixes your problem.

If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem
still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version
field of this bug to 'fc4'.

Thank you.

Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2005-07-19 22:32:46 UTC

A possibly related data point is that the same SCSI card (pci 9004:8178) now
fails to boot with the 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3(smp) kernel.  It has worked fine with
the entire 2.6.11 stream of fc3 kernels.

The default initrd image fails to boot - one time with references to undefined
symbols from spi_*.  A hand-made initrd image, including both aic7xxx and
aic7xxx_old, still fails to scan the bus, and thus the kernel boot aborts when
it tries to mount "/".  The kernel paniced in such a way as to make impossible
transcription of the errors here.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2005-10-03 00:55:56 UTC

This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update.
It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005.
If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug.

There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only
way to purge them.

Thank you.