I am not sure the 'kernel' is the correct component and I applogize for any error in this report as I am new to Linux and this bug system. I was directed here from the Red Hat support site and a transcript of that follows: ----------------------------------------------------------- Recently you requested personal assistance from our on-line support center. Below is a summary of your request and our response. If we do not hear from you within 48 hours we will assume your issue has been resolved. Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you. ------------------------------------------------------------ - SUMMARY: SMP new 2.2.5-22SMP kernel SUGGESTED SOLUTION: At 8/24/99 4:51 PM we wrote - Hi! We have had some problems with our ticket system, and have found that some of the trouble tickets have not been responded to. We apologize sincerely and hope that this does not happen again. If you are still having the problem you reported in this incident, please respond and we will help you as best we can. Looking forward to your response, - Red Hat Support Hi, Not sure if you have received a responce or not on this ticket but from what I can currently see; what you'll need to do is to submit a bug at http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla and then developement will see if what can be done to resolve this. Sorry I can't offer more but it appears to me that you have located an SMP bug with the driver and the bugs are tracked through bugzilla! -Rob INCIDENT DETAILS: Reference #: 990806-0000 Product: Red Hat Linux/Intel 6.0 Category: Installation Contact info: bobl Time created: 8/6/99 0:07 AM Last updated: 8/24/99 5:13 PM Elapsed time: 18 Days, 17 Hours Status: Unresolved Registration: 1206d548a713710f DESCRIPTION: This references incident # 990731-0001. I downloaded the latest kernel "kernel-smp-2.2.5-22.i686.rpm" and installed via gno-rpm. All went well and the new kernel showed up on my lilo boot list but when I booted the new kernel the boot log showed no scsi hosts as before. The new wrinkel is that there was no indication it was loading an ETA-DMA module to talk to my DPT card ( single scsi disk, no raid hardware installed). Right after loading the md driver the boot log indicated it was measuriong raid5 checksumming speed. after a couple of lines relative to that the lines read: scsi : 0 hosts scsi : detected total a couple of lines later the familiar kernel panic line and the system stopped ( not locked as I can ctrl-atl-del to shut down). As I am relatively new to Linux, I may have missed some important point. Your earlier suggestion was that I download the latest kernel and boot images. I did not download a boot image as I'm not sure what that is and I only saw one item on the FTP site (with the kernel I downloaded) that had boot in it and that was another kernel. My current guess is that I somewhow have to inform the new kernel about the ETA-DMA module but I don't know how to do that. thanks for the help... PS: I have previously installed RH5.1 and got it up and running with my network card and ADSL line without any problem. I since wiped that off my disk infor a clean install of RH6.0. At 8/7/99 1:29 AM you wrote - I discovered in the RH installation manual, nder kernel discussions, that I must build a new initrd for the new kernel to add modules such as a scsi interface driver. I successfully completed this build, as eveidence of no error messages and I saw the file appear in the /boot directory. The result is still the same... the boot loader did not indicate the load of the eta-dma module. thanks.. Bob L. At 8/15/99 5:46 PM you wrote - I have finally resolved the issue reported 8/7/99 of the new 2.2.5-22smp kernel not loading the eta-dma module. I discovered that when I add a kernel to lilo (using the linux config tool) that I also have to specify the (optional) initrd-newkernel.img file location (usually /boot). Now when I boot the 2.2.5-22smp kernel it does load the eta-dma module after checking for raid devices. Unfortunately the results are the same. After loading the eta-dma module the first message says 'tryting to clear possible blink state" then something like "HBA adaptor at 0xfcb0 not responding to inquiry, sorry" My next step is to get a different scsi adaptor from work and see if the smp problem is with this particular card driver (DPT PM2144UW; ETA-DMA) or if the problem is perhaps in the kernel. As I already indicated, I have run NT4.0 and NT Warp server in SMP mode on this system so I am confident the hardware is OK. At 8/17/99 0:57 AM you wrote - As I entered on 8/15/99, I have changed my SCSI card FROM the DPT PM2144UW to an Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra Wide controller. I also reloaded Linux 6.0 from the original CD ROM and successfully booted into SMP mode. This seems to indicate a problem with the driver (ETA-DMA) for the DPT SCSI controller in SMP mode as it seemed to work just fine in uni-processor mode. If you would like additional information on the ETA-DMA problem I am willing to reconfigure my system to assist in that effort. AS I have borrowed the Adaptec card, I will have to eventually return to the DPT configuration unless I buy a new controller card (not likely). Please let me know how I can be of further assistance and I await a fix for this problem. 8/16/99 @ 10:02PM If your issue remains unresolved, please update your incident at http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?r&11-990806-0000&100-9 33912431 ------------------------------------------------------------ ---