Henry Stiles Email: henrys.com in comp.os.linux.hardware says: I am trying to install "stock" Redhat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000 Pentium II. It has an Adaptec 294x ultra scsi host adapter and some sort of IBM SCSI disk. The disk drive and adapter seem to be properly detected and I can get through almost 1/2 of the installation but then I get intermittant failures with scsi error messages like: "aborting command due to timeout:" "scsi host 0 abort timed out resetting" finally, the machine locks up. The same machine ran Redhat 4.1 without any problems. Me too, a Pentium II 300 with Adaptec 2940UW. I tried to search in DejaNews, and I found some german newsgroups with the same problem. They all say that the new driver is buggy. It would be nice to have a new boot image soon. Regards, Sandor Barany
Problem is known, errata disks should be ready soon - msw
I would like to add a comment about new Adaptec driver 5.1.3 introduced in 2.0.36pre14. It does not read SCSI EEPROM and defaults to extended translation: ENABLED, what breaks lilo and fdisk if disk was formatted with disabled extended translation see http://www.linuxhq.com/lnxlists/linux-scsi/ls_9811_03/msg00051.html I have also noticed that the kernel-2.0.36-1.src.rpm should be affected by this bug.
*** Bug 87 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It is impossible to boot the 2.0.36 kernel from an Adaptec AIC 7880 on-board UW SCSI chip. This has prevented the installation of RH 5.2 on what was to be my company's first official Linux server. The bug is clearly in aicxxxx.o. I have installed RH 5.0 with all errata including kernel 2.0.35 without any problem on this machine. I installed the 2.0.36 kernel source and built a new kernel: it won't boot. Same problem as when installing RH 5.2 : command aborted due to time-out, SCSI bus resets, etc... The newsgroups are overflowing with complaints about this, but I have not seen an official RH response. Can I make a boot diskette with a 2.0.35 kernel to install/upgrade RH 5.2 ? I have now manually installed/upgraded all RH 5.2 RPMS on top of RH 5.0 and now the machine runs RH 5.2 with a 2.0.35 kernel, but it was rather tedious. Danny Heijl. Danny.Heijl --- ------- Additional Comments From Danny.Heijl 12/14/98 12:20 ------- I can make the 2.0.36 kernel boot by applying the aicxxx 5.1.2 to 5.1.3 and 5.1.3 to 5.1.4 patches (from your pub/aic directory) and building and installing a new kernel. The RH 5.2 CD/boot floppy install problem remains of course.
Just to let everyone know - we're working to make new boot images and install instructions to fix a variety of problems. The images will be ready as soon as possible.
This was fixed in the errata bootdisk release earlier this month.