From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Okay, I am not the first to submit this bug. Just wanted to add a card that hangs the kernel on install: Adaptec 7896. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start installing 7.1 on a system with this SCSI board 1.1 Using the floppy with a network boot image, it simply hangs 1.2 Using the CDROM, it starts scanning the bus (in a kind of noisy way, timing out for each empty SCSI ID); after scanning both SCSI controllers, it times out when trying to access the hard drive, a ST34502LC. This may show the drivers are different on the floppy and on the network boot image. Actual Results: Described above. The system is at meridian, you can reproduce it yourself :-)
Doug: does this help?
Same failure with a Intel LG440+ mother board and a IBM DDYS-TI835OM disk (18 Gig). The machine has 2 Gigs of memory and 2 1000 MHz Pentium III. After scaning boith SCSI controllers it gets stuck in a timeout loop. <4> SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder <4> SCSI bug is being reset for host 0 channel 0. <4> (scsi 0:0:0:) Device reset, Message buffer in use
The controller is an Adaptec aic7896/97
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29555 ***