Bug 6463

Hi. I installed RH6.1 from a CD burned from the ISO image
downloaded from your site a week or so ago. The original
build only had an AIC7895 SCSI Controller (Tyan Thuder
Dual, with 440LX chipset). I later installed a DPT PM3334UW
(I was having trouble with an external chain off the
Adaptec, which I must say has been no end of trouble to
me...).

What happened was that while kudzu properly identified the
new device as a DPT controller, its pci mapping table
specifies the wrong driver; it lists "dpt", when there is
no module called "dpt". The proper entry should be "eata".
Once I changed that, kudzu worked properly.

The other problem I had was that, since your setup by
default loads the SCSI driver modules in the initrd, and
since when a new controller is added the initrd isn't
updated, kudzu had trouble with the drives attached to the
controller. If I ran kudzu by hand and then rebooted, kudzu
would be happy about the DPT controller (as long as I had
fixed the pcitable), but it would tell me that the drives
had been removed from the system. Once I edited the initrd
to autoload the eata driver as well as the AIC driver,
everything was fine and dandy.

So, I think that the things that need to be fixed are (a)
the pcitable, and (b), ultimately I think that if kudzu
identifies a new SCSI controller you should be providing a
facility to automatically update the initrd (assuming that
you are trying to avoid the need for people to compile new
kernels.).

Following is a link to a thread on Deja.com, where I
reported this problem in case others experience the same
thing; there's a little more detail in there:

http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=541265448

Thanks,
--Bob Drzyzgula
bob

------- Additional Comments From   10/28/99 10:43 -------
(Note that I also sent this to bugs, and came to
file it here because of the "deprecated" autoresponse from
the former address...)

--Bob