From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: For new systems with "jackson technologie" (hyper threading) the Red Hat errata-kernel 2.4.9-31 is necessary. This RHSA includes the driver aic7xxx vers 6.2.1, which causes problems with more than 6 GB RAM like "INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes" or standstill after "Setting Hostname". This problem did not occure with driver aic7xxx vers 6.2.4. Fujitsu Siemens Computers recommend to integrate the driver aic7xxx vers 6.2.4 into the next errata update. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install ( http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html ) on a dual CPU hyper threading system with more the 6 GB RAM 2. Reboot 3. Actual Results: Messages like "INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes" or standstill after "Setting Hostname". Expected Results: Normal boot ( driver aic7xxx vers. 6.2.4 works fine ) Additional info:
The default aic7xxx used by RHL 7.1 and 7.2 is 5.2.5 Is there a reason Fujitsu Siemens Computers modifies the default ?
The driver aic7xxx 5.2.x does not analyse the AIC configspace information regarding termination power or unused channel. This causes different scsi- timeout errors. ( Adaptec recommends the driver aic7xxx 6.2.4 on its WEB page. )
until 6.2.6 the driver didn't work on several series of cards (esp Dell machines) though
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