From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.12-ac3 i686) Description of problem: 3w-xxxx module inserts properly, but when fdisk wants to access a raid1 volume configured on escalade 6200 card, some error is printed and that the array is then not available for any r/w operations, so RedHat cannot be installed on it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 7.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have a 3w escalade card in the system 2. configure a raid1 array on it 3. try to install redhat on it ... Actual Results: the error: 3w-xxxx: tw_interrupt(): Bad response, status = 0xc1, flags = 0x11, unit = 0x0. 3w-xxxx: tw_scsi_eh_reset(): Reset succeeded for card 1. 3w-xxxx: tw_interrupt(): Bad response, status = 0xc1, flags 0x11, unit 0x0. scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after host reset: host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 80000 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 19539040 get_last_sector ioctl: bread returned NULL. Expected Results: I have 3ware cards in other systems but they don't boot from them. I never had any problems with the 3w-xxxx module on various kernels, so i see no reason that the module in the boot kernel doesn't work. Additional info:
an erratum to fix this issue is available at: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-131.html it specifically provides an anaconda updates disk: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/images/i386/update-disk-20011009.img Good luck and thanks for your report! :)