Re: kernel panic, can't find drives

[Jason Baron <jbaron redhat com>]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Justin Crabtree wrote:

> Installed RHEL4 Beta 1 on a HP ML570 with mirrored SCSI drives.  After 
> rebooting, boot fails with kernel panic trying to find drives. 
> Installed FC3 and it booted fine.  Here is the info on the drives and 
> controller from dmesg.
> 
> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>          <Adaptec (Compaq OEM) 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>          aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> 
> scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
>          <Adaptec (Compaq OEM) 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter>
>          aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
> 
> Are there known issues with this controller or server platform?
> 
> 

i don't know of any specific issues, but B1 is old at this point...can you 
try B2?

-Jason