Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 98607
Installer causes kernel panic with aic7xxx module
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I have now tried to install Redhat 9 (and tried 8, with same result) on a machine with a Adaptec 2940UW card and 2 Atlas 36GB LVD drives. There are no other devices on the scsi chain. This set up has been working with an old version of RedHat (6.2) for several years now. I remember during that install, I had to use an updated driver at around the 2.2.19 kernel time to get it to work. With no devices on the scsi card the adapter module does load. As soon as I attach the drives the failure begins. I have tried the aic7xxx_old module and it fails with an "unrecoverable Interupt... not syncing error" I downloaded a driver diskette (DUD) from: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/ but it is not recognized from this disk during install. I have updated to the latest BIOS on the motherboard and the SCSI card has BIOS 1.34.3. I have tried all sorts of different settings on the card, and am now out of ideas. I have searched for a similar problem, and have found little help. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. All steps are mentioned in description Actual Results: Can not install RedHat Expected Results: Driver should load and allow the install to continue. Additional info: I think I have mentioned everything I can.
This would appear to be a kernel issue.
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