Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 146111
aic79xx does not work on Dell 670
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:16:12 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: Running the install CDs on a Dell670 with scsi disks, the install fails when the aic79xx driver is loaded - no disks are found. Updating RHEL4 Beta 1 glibc and kernel with the Beta2 rpms, building a initrd and rebooting results in a kernel panic as system can't find any disks. insmod: error inserting 'lib/aic79xx.ko': -1 No such device Updating RHEL4 Beta 1 glibc and kernel and then rebuilding the system from source also results in the same kernel panic. RHEL4 Beta 1 works fine. Porting the aic7xxx directory from the Beta 1 src tree, changing routines to use ssleep/msleep and then rebuilding the system results in a working aic79xx and a bootable system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.648_EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run the RHEL4 Beta2 install CDs on a Dell 670 2. 3. Actual Results: aic79xx driver loaded and failed to find any disks Expected Results: aic79xx driver to load and install to continue Additional info:
(In reply to comment #1) > the kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.648_EL is an old kernel. Can you please try and > re-produce this on RC bits, kernel is: 2.6.9-5.EL > Can you point me to the RHEL4 RC iso images - Thanks Don
Ummm... I am trying to install for first time on this machine. The ISO images are the 2.6.9-1 and fails to install. Trying to use REDHAT driver/patch from a floppy does not work either. I cannot consider (from a new installation) that the appropriate answer is that 2.6.9-1 is an old kernel unless there is a new set of .iso images to which I can make a set of install CDs. Having said that I am willing to use a NON_RELEASE version of CORE 3 if I can get them in .iso format (otherwise a lot of pain to FUDGE-BOOT the machine and format the drives!!!)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 is now released and aic79xx is working again. I have installed on a Dell 670 without problems. There do seem to be performance issues with this driver but I will open a new Bug report for this.