Description of problem:

I moved from the 2.6.23.xx series kernel to the 2.6.24.xx series kernel, notably
the 2.6.24.3-50.fc8, in order to be able to attach a USB disk array bigger than
2 TB (A LaCie Biggest Quadra 4TB), since the 2.26.23.xx and lower kernels report
that they cannot read devices > 2 TB, and return the so-called READ CAPACITY(16)
failed error :-( . Using my laptop with FC8 and kernel-2.6.24-3-50.fc8.i386, I
spotted that this kernel did the trick. I then started updating our workstations
 (Dell T7400, see dmidecode specs in attach) with kernel-2.6.24-3-50.fc8.x86_64,
but then the Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.06 starts giving errors, reporting that
"IOC is in fault state". After waiting a very long time, and some iterations
between "IOC is in fault state" and "IOC recovered" messages, he continues
booting, but then reports, as expected, that he could not find his disks. So, no
working computer after waiting a long time ....

The LSI device/Fusion info is (from /var/log/messages, under
kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.x86_64, the working kernel thus)

Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.05
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.04.05
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 56 (level, low) -> IRQ 56
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup
ioc0: LSISAS1068E B3: Capabilities={Initiator}
scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E B3, FwRev=00142d00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=511, IRQ=56
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3750640AS      G    PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB)


I see that the kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 uses the Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.05,
and this gives thus no problem for booting, nor for working with the workstation
intensively.

So, could you correct this problem by issuing a newer version of the Fusion MPT
driver/kernel that works, or tell me how
a) I can make a 2.6.23.xx FC8 series kernel read USB filesystems > 2TB
or
b) I can update the mptbase and related modules so that the 2.6.24.xx FC8
kernels boot my system correctly


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
see above

How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a 2.6.24.xx kernel
2. boot with this kernel
3.
  
Actual results:
no working system

Expected results:
a working system :-)

Additional info:
none

In attach you find the dmidecode info. You can also go directly to the dell
website and request the specs of our machine, using the service tag 35L7H3J