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Bug 38401

Summary:	Installer hangs when loading aic7xxx module
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mihai Ibanescu <mihai.ibanescu>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	egbert
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Description Mihai Ibanescu 2001-04-30 16:17:29 UTC

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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 :-)

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-04-30 16:19:40 UTC

Doug: does this help?

Comment 2 Robert Minsk 2001-05-02 05:45:03 UTC

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

Comment 3 Robert Minsk 2001-05-02 05:58:11 UTC

The controller is an Adaptec aic7896/97

Comment 4 Doug Ledford 2001-05-02 18:55:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29555 ***