From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95; BTinternet CD v7.0) Description of problem: After a fresh install of RH 7.1 on server with aic-7896 on-board scsi, rebooting the system gets to the point where it looks for the scsi disk and gives the message: scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0 lun 0 enquiry 00 00 00 ff 00 The message is repeated for each id number and scsi channel After the maximum has been reached (15 and 2 respectively) the following 4 line message repeats ad-infinitum: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 (SCSI 0:0:0:0) device reset, message buffer in use Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.reboot server 2.wait! 3. Additional info: When the first install took place, I got a hang "trying to load aic7xxx". Having previously experienced this on another server, I used a boot image and typed "linux apic" at the boot prompt. All seemed well ...
Did you install the SMP kernel ?
No, I hadn't - I have now and I'm the proud owner of a system that works - thank-you. Alex Shannon