Bug 53040

Summary:	aic7xxx badly borke in rc2
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	greg hosler <greg>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3
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Hardware:	i386
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Description greg hosler 2001-09-02 15:09:50 UTC

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Description of problem:
I have a 100% scsi system, Adeptec 29160, IBM scsi U160 disks, Yamaha scsi
cdrw.

The RC2 kernel detects what I believe to be false media errors on the scsi
cdreader. I cannot install. I have written disc1 2 times, and each time,
a media error is detected in one package, or another during installation,
and
retry will not read the block/package.

I can reboot to an earlier RH7.1 installation, and I can read the same
cdrom
on the same yamaha drive, without a single error.

This is reminsicent of the aha7xxx errors we used to have during the early
days
of 7.1 beta.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up a scsi only system
2. install from a yamaha scsi cdrw (same one that wrote the cd's - this
REALLY SHOULD work !!!)
3.
	

Actual Results:  failed install. media error detected, and once detected
cannot continue install. retry does no good as it sees the false media
error again and again, on an otherwise idle system.

Expected Results:  installed system.

Additional info:

can't install on aic7xxx scsi based systems - I set this as high priority
because of that.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-09-02 16:16:30 UTC

Switching to kernel since that's where the problem would lie

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-02 16:23:43 UTC

Is this by accident a 440GX chipset system ?
If so, does passing "apic" on the syslinux prompt help ?

Comment 3 greg hosler 2001-09-02 23:07:20 UTC

This a SMP system, so apic is already enabled. The chipset is VIA.

Comment 4 greg hosler 2001-09-03 05:34:58 UTC

hmm. I just thought about this again.

While it is true that my box is SMP/Via chipset, it just occured to me that when
I'm booting
the installation cd, it's booting a UP kernel, so apic is probably not being
set. Let me try
enabling this and see if this helps.

Comment 5 greg hosler 2001-09-03 12:06:34 UTC

still fails.

I tried

	lowres apic

at the boot prompt (I need "lowres" for my graphic card  support).

I still get a false media error, but at a different place.

Comment 6 greg hosler 2001-09-03 13:57:35 UTC

it looks like this might be hardware. I swapped the cdrom drive, used the same
media (created
on the original cdrom drive), and the install went fine. My big clue was when a
cp -a of the
cdrom got i/o errors... I'm closing this as NOTABUG

-Greg