This is a plea for help! I am attempting to load a Red Hat 6.1 Deluxe box version on: Gateway 2000 E-5200-700 Single Pentium III on a dual capable motherboard ACPI ASIC on motherboard 256MB RAM AMIBIOS Build 25 Version OAANG025 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 at AGP port Toshiba XM-6401TA Fast/Ultra SE CDROM at Target 5 LUN 0 of SCIS BUS 0 Two IBM DMVS09N LVD 9.1GB Hard Disks at Targets 0 and 1 LUN 0 of SCSI BUS 0 (Because they are forced to by Microsoft, Gateway loaded Windows 2000 Professional on drive at Target 0. I will use Target 1 for Linux 6.1) Adaptec AHA-2940U2 PCI to Ultra SCSI Adapter at PCI bus 0 Device 17 Function 0 SCSI BIOS Version 2.11.0 (c) 1998 Uses Address Range FFAFF000 to FFAFFFFF Uses I/O Range EC00 to ECFF My installs always end at the following infinite loop: <4> SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting <4> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. <4> SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder These 3 messages repeat ad nauseam (my patience runs out after 10 min) The repeating sequence is immediately preceeded by <4> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-FAST SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4 <6> (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 17/0 <6> (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID = 7, 32/255 SCBs <6> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded <4> scsi : 1 host. <4> scsi : aborting command due to timeout: pid0, scsi0, channel0, id0, lun0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 This sequence of SCSI related messages occurs when the F3 screen reads * going to insmod fat.o (path is NULL) * going to insmod vfat.o (path is NULL) * 65 keymaps are available * loaded 9 keymaptables * going to insmod aic7xxx.o (path is NULL) Once loop is entered the page up, page down and console change keys no longer function. (Must read messages rapidly before they scroll) The only way out of loop is Ctrl-Alt-Del. I have several pages of messages prior to the aic7xxx.o sequence if you need them to aid debugging. Also this failure happens when I use the CDROM disk 1 from the box or the floppy diskette from the box or the boot-RHEA-1999:044.img I downloaded from Red Hat (it never gets to the updates image I also downloaded) and every conceivable combination of expert, text, and readily available driver option "strings" In all cases the loading is labelled with this line syslinux 1.45 1999-06-14 copyright (c) 1994-1999 H. Peter Anvin I have called the Red Hat Tech Support line several times and they all insisted I download the boot and updates images before they would try to debug this problem. I have now established that the new images make no difference. Red Hat has opened Case 291639 for this support request. If you have any idea what this problem is and how to fix it, please contact me at clshier or shierwood.
You're using an old version of Red Hat with an old version of the aic7xxx driver. Please try updating your driver using the disk image and instructions found on my web site: http://people.redhat.com/dledford
Thanks for the response! Actually someone at Red Hat had sent me an email suggesting I visit your site and get the latest updated drivers. I did that and was successful in getting past this problem. Now I just wish I had some way to use the fancy abilities of my 3DLabs video card instead of just the Frame Buffer Device version of the X server. Oh well ... can't complain too much considering the low cost of the Red Hat package. Thanks again. Craig