When attempting to install RedHat 6.2 on a Integraph TD3, the system has a kernal panic on the selection of the SCSI CDROM driver for the aic7xxx. This driver worked great in the 6.1 driver. The aic7xxx module is part of the AHA-2740 series. The versions of RedHat are the downloaded iso images The boot image images/boot.img was written to a 1.44 floppy. The message returned is Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT In swapper task - not syncing The system halts at that point. Going back to the 6.1.92 beta software, it does not have that problem.
I have had this exact same thing happen to me, only it's not limited to the floppy install. It happens over the network as well (had the CD mounted on another server and shared via FTP). I *cannot* install RedHat Linux 6.2 on my HP Netserver LM/60 because of this issue. I'll have to stick with 6.0 or 6.1. I thought it might have something to do with the fact that this is an EISA-bus system - no PCI.
The actual problem is that the 2742 EISA cards and the 2842 VLB cards have the 7770 chipset and there is a problem in the sequencer on those cards. This will require a driver update disk to fix. Since the 6.1 product release we have had the ability to give out an updated driver disk that could be used during the install to get around these issues. You can read about the driver update disks on my web site at people.redhat.com/dledford However, the 5.1.28 version of the aic7xxx driver does not yet solve this problem. It will only be solved after the 5.1.29 version of the aic7xxx driver is release. I expect that to be sometime in the next week.
I could upgrade 6.2 on my all scsi system. even mount my current ext2 drive using the bash screen. ...but when I tried to boot the new system; it has a kernel panic trying to mount the / drive. I've had RH since 5.0 and I've ever had this problem before...... ;-(
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10677, seems related to this, and <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10467">10467</a> is the exact same. I have tried The aic7xxx version 5.1.29 driver update disk for Red Hat Linux 6.2 from Doug's aic7xxx Page ( http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html ) but no luck there either... During "Loading aic7xxx driver..." the message comes along: Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT. In swapper task - not syncing Both the the original 6.0 image, and the 6.1 boot image works fine.
I forgot to mention that I have an onboard dual AHA2740 adapter. And that the aic7xxx 5.1.29 driver update disk from Doug's aic7xxx Page didn't help.
I have also tried the 5.1.29 version of the aic7xxx driver, and it does not work for me on my HP Netserver LC with the embedded AIC-7770 SCSI controller.
I am having problem with aic-7xxx driver on my Intel pr440fx mother boards as well. It uses aic-7880 chips set. My motherboard works with Windows 2000 Professional installed on second drive.
The current aic7xxx driver version is 5.1.31 and is available on my web site (as noted earlier in the comments). Please try that and then if there is still a problem, re-open this bug. The 5.1.31 driver is known to solve the BRKADRINT problems that we have found and also fixes a few other problems.
5.1.31, unfortunately did NOT solve the problems on my HP Netserver LM/60 I downloaded the driver disk provided on http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html, started install and inserted driver disk when prompted, and same bug occurs during installation: "kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT In swapper task - not syncing" This is an onboard EISA controller. I do have the option of going back to 6.0, or perhaps 6.1 (haven't checked, but I think it works), but RedHat 6.2 still is a no go on that machine. Can we re-open this bug?
Fujitsu/ICL H532i Teamserver here with AIC7870 on-board chips. Version 5.1.31 has not solved my problem either. Whichever method I use to install aic7xxx drivers the system hangs with the message Loading aic7xxx drivers. I've tried the standard method, expert method and linux dd method. Freebsd installs without a qualm, as does NT. I've just updated the AMI bios to v.1.00.10BGO which also updated the SCSI bios to, I think, 1.16. Hope you'll keep this bug alive. James
I have a netserver 5/66 LC that is giving the same problem mentioned above. Specifically, I get "kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT In swapper task - not syncing" when trying to install. I have also downloaded the latest adaptec driver and ... no dice! Please reopen this bug. TP
This is definitely a problem. I am using an Adaptec-2740 EISA card with an AMI Titan-II Motherboard and I am getting: "Kernal Panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT. In swapper task - not syncing" then the system locks at that point. I downloaded the dd.img file for RedHat 6.2 from people.redhat.com/dledford and though the new driver appears to load, after thesecond stage file loads the install dies with: "error 2 reading header: Success cpio failed on (null):(internal)" then stops the install.
Further to my earlier note, I see that many people with this problem have 'solved' it by using earlier versions. I have managed to get my hands on a copy of 6.1 which does NOT work on my Fujitsu H532i machine. I have now tried several different distributions of Linux - a bit pointless really as I finally realised that they are all using the same kernel - without success. In addition to FreeBSD and NT, I can load Solaris 7 x86, so, wherever the problem lies, it is a factor of Linux's ability to handle these adapters.
I think I have to back up James Wilde here - I'm running with an on-board Adaptec 7896 chipset (Intel L440GX+) and none of the old versions I've tried have helped me thus far. Win2K seems to work fine for me, but none of the Linux distros (incl. RedHat 6.2) get past the loading of the aic7xxx driver.
I've tried the new driver 5.1.31 with no regard. I have a HP netserver LH 90 with an Adaptec 2740 EISA SCSI card with the same errors as above. Four distributions of Linux have failed. Linux-Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, FreeBSD. (SCSI0) BRKADRINT error (0x2): Illegal Sequencer Address referenced (SCSI0) SEQADDR=0x1 Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT In swapper task-not sycing.
Please disregard my previous email. IGIT GALOOT is the final outcome. I failed to read the fine print on Doug's page. The part where it says to use the driver at the bottom of the list named updated aic7xxx driver. Im sending this from my RH 6.2 box, and everything went fine. Sorry Doug, Great Job!!!!
Hopefully my final update in this thread. Please see earlier messages for my machine spec. It is a Fujitsu H532i. The Adaptec bios is 1.26sP8. I have not had any luck with Doug's drivers. However, working on a tip from Knut Stormkartr I have discovered that RH 5.0 and 5.1 but not 5.2 will successfully install. I have now installed from RH 5.0 since I have no 5.1 CD and haven't found an .iso image yet on the net. So now I have a working Linux machine running the 2.0.32 kernel. Now I'm going to go away and work out how to upgrade to RH 6.2 without breaking anything! Good luck to everyone else.
I am currentlty using Redhat 6.1, the aic7xxx driver worked great for me. Recently, I upgraded and compiled the kernel from 2.2.12 to 2.2.16, I could make the system to boot up but I have the following error message "Scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. Aborting command due to timeout". What is that mean? Is it related to the issue of the aic7xxx driver? The following info may be useful for people who want to solve this problem for me OS : Redhat 6.1 Motherboard: Asus P2BDS Scsi : Adaptec. AIC 7890 & AIC 3860 Bernard
I dont think this bug has been solved yet. I tried the new driver 5.1.31 on my FIC VIP-I02 motherboard with an AHA-2940 PCI card Firmare 1.11 and I still have the kernel panic problem :-( Did anyone try to upgrade the 2940' bios to 1.16 yet??? Best regards Chris
I've tried to install RedHat 6.1 from CD to Intel ISP2150 2xPIII 550 processors: Installer started to load aic7xxx driver and that was the end of it. Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc did not work as well. At the same time RedHat 6.2 installed perfectly. On internal application reason I still need to run 6.1 on this server but how ?
Recently tried to upgrade my companies Linux server running the 2.2.5-22 kernel with the 2.2.16-3 kernel RPM's from Redhat. The upgrade went fine until I tried to reboot and got the error message: "Scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. Aborting command due to timeout". When I go back to the old kernel, everything seems to work. I had considered trying to use some of the newer drivers, but those don't seem to work, either. Any ideas? Thanks, Joe
I'm unable to install 6.2 linux. System configuration is as follows: Tyan KT AMD 750 Athlon Adaptec 39160 two ultra 160 scsi disks 3-256mb memory modules System will not reboot after fresh install, including most recent driver from website. I believe the motherboard in the problem. Any help wil be appreciated
F.Y.I. It sounds like this problem is not forgotten after all. //Thomas >Hi, > >I have tried to download the AIC7xxx device drivers from your free bsd = >site. I download to a Windows 98 machine why I use rawrite to move the = >driver to a floppy. It fails however, giving a "bad sector" error = >message. The floppy images for the 6.1.5 driver are corrupt. I'm working on 6.1.6 of the driver and will update the images when it is released. I expect that to happen before the end of this week. -- Justin
I have the same problem, when I connect a CD on the SE connector. I tried every drivers on all sites supposed to resolve the problem but it's the same. My card is an adaptec 29160N on a ASUS card and with an athlon 1GHz.
Good thing I am not alone... I have a MSI 694D Pro Dual Pentium 3 800Mhz, and an Adaptec 29160N with 2 SCSI HD, and 2 SCSI CD & CDR. All the Aic7xxx drivers from Releases 5.2 & 6.2 & 7.0 & 7.1 got the problem. It hangs when starting to read the CDROM packages. In 7.1 it says SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 1. Aborting command due to timeout. Trying harder. I have tried all different configurations in the SCSI bios setup (incl. wide negotiation - disabled) I even disabled the bios, but with no luck...... Geir S Please help. I'm about to give up on linux
gdyrs: is this during install? Can you try the alternate aic7xxx driver we ship? (and please open a separate bug for this)
This is happening during the installation with the blue screen. I have also tried with the alternate driver in the /images folder. It gives me the option of trying a new experimental driver aic7xxx. What happen afterwords is: SCSI bus is being reset for host 1 channel 0 SCSI host 1 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder These two lines is being repeated every second, and the CDROM's gives clicking sound. Could there be some problem for the driver with handling a SE- and a LVD segment at the same time?