I cant install fisher because the installer freexes after loading SCSCI controller module aic7xxxx Regards John
We (Red Hat) should really try hard to fix this before next release.
This happened for me too, I got the following kernel Oops: aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 kernel BUG at /usr/src/bs/BUILD/kernel-2.4.0/linux/include/asm/pci.h:61! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c482b358>] EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: 00000049 ebx: c3847800 ecx: c3fd6000 edx: c0231d28 esi: c3845e64 edi: c38480c6 ebp: c384c060 esp: c3845d6c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process scsi_eh_0 (pid: 26, stackpage=c3845000) Stack: c483e39b c483e560 0000003d 00000000 c117ce00 c117ce00 00000000 c482bb2c 0000003c 00000002 c117ce00 c117cc00 00000000 00000000 c482af72 c117cc00 c3e07460 00000000 00000082 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: [<c483e39b>] [<c483e560>] [<c482bb2c>] [<c482af72>] [<c4815f46>] [<c4815a20>] [<c4815d67>] [<c48165e5>] [<c4816bb2>] [<c0108fb1>] [<c01074fe>] [<c4816ad4>] Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8d 86 00 00 00 40 89 03 8b 4c 24 08 8b 41 64 Here is the output of lspci -v: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at df40 [disabled] [size=32] 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) Flags: medium devsel 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM] rev 0 (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 11 Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Expansion ROM at 7f000000 [disabled] [size=64K] 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine 10/100] (rev 06) Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DFE-530TX Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5 I/O ports at d880 [size=128] Memory at ffefef80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at ffee0000 [disabled] [size=64K] 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 08) Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4760 SBLive! Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 I/O ports at df80 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08) Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at dff0 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03) Subsystem: Adaptec AHA-2904/Integrated AIC-7850 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] Memory at ffeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
I have the same problem with the new AIC7xxx SCSI driver that comes with kernel 2.4.0-0.99.x. My box: o Motherboard - Asus P2B-LS ACPI Bios Revision 1011 with Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter onboard o 2 IBM hard drives DCAS-34330W, DRVS09V o PLEXTOR CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.00 o YAMAHA CRW4416S Rev: 1.0e When compiling the kernel with the new AIC7xxx SCSi driver my box hangs during boot when scanning the SCSI bus. The 2 hard drives and my Plextor CD-ROM drive are recognized. When looking for the last device the boot process falls into a sleeping state. scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message scsi0:0:4:0: Device is active, asserting ATN Recovery code sleeping When after this resetting the box, even the Adaptec Bios does only know the first 3 devices but not the Yamaha CDRW. I have to power off and then during the next time booting I should let the Adaptec SCSI Bios utility rescan the Bus. Then it finds all my devices again. For this reason the "fisher" CD does not boot 'n hangs when looking for the AIC7xxx SCSI driver and then scanning the SCSI bus. When compiling the 2.4.0-0.99.5 kernel with aic7xxx_old SCSI drive everything is ok.
Erik this is a kernel driver issue right?
Sure is. We're reverting drivers this week, so it should get better. I'll hold off on closing this until we actually do revert though.
I got the same problem here. Hardware: AMD K7 (Tbird) 900MHz, 256 MB RAM (pc100) on an ASUS A7V (Bios 1005C) adaptec aha2940u2W (Bios 2.57.2) (id7) IBM DRVS09V (id0) IBM DGVS09U (id1) IBM DCHS09U (id2) Seagate ST32550N (id3) Pioneer DVD-303 (id4) TEAC CDR-58S (id5) Graphics-Board: ASUS AGP-V7700 Pure/Deluxe Sound: Creative SB Live! Value Net: Intel(R) PRO/100+ Management Adapter System locks completely when loading aic7xxxx. Had to disconnect power to reboot.
This is reverted internally, but I can't really fix it for w/o another full release.
verified better behavior for aic7xxx machines in test lab using qa0217.1 ...