Bug 203750

Summary:	Install of RHEL 4 Update 4 on Adaptec 2400A RAID Array Always Fails
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Victor Barger <victor>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Tom Coughlan <coughlan>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4.4	CC:	markus.lidel
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Description Victor Barger 2006-08-23 15:46:44 UTC

Description of problem:
Installation of RHEL 4 Update 4 on a system with an Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A card is exceedingly slow 
and finally fails with the error "The package X cannot be opened.  This is due to a missing file or 
perhaps a corrupt package."  The md5 sums on the installation CDs are correct and the CDs pass the 
initial installation media tests; moreover, the CDs have been used successfully to install RHEL4 on other 
systems.  Also tried a different CD-ROM drive to rule that out.  Per http://www.gatago.com/linux/
redhat/4426448.html , this error message seems to be the result of a timing issue.  I suspect there's a 
problem with how i2o in RHEL4 Update 4 is accessing the 2400A, which is causing the timing problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4
Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A (BIOS: 1.26, Firmware: 3A0L)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from installation CD
2. Choose graphical install
3. Proceed through install configuration
  
Actual results:
Package installation is extremely slow.  Early on in the installation of packages from Disc 2 the installer 
will stop with the error message "The package X cannot be opened.  This is due to a missing file or 
perhaps a corrupt package."  The actual package that it fails on varies, but it's most commonly redhat-
logos-1.1.26-1.noarch or rootfiles-8-1.


Expected results:
The packages would be installed as usual.


Additional info:
The 2400A works fine in this system with Red Hat 7.3 and its default dpt_i2o driver.

Comment 3 Tom Coughlan 2007-02-19 22:51:37 UTC

Victor,

Please post any kernel messages that occur leading up to the failure. These will
help to indicate where the problem is. Type ctrl-alt-f1, -f3, -f4 in the
installer to get the messages. 

Also note various mail on the linux lists indicating that this driver/hardware
does not work in 64 bit systems, or with 64-bit DMA. 

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115891635920858&w=2

and others.  

Tom

Comment 4 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 15:56:13 UTC

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