RHEL4 and AIC7899

[Oliver]

>>
>> during the first boot from the install CD of RHEL4AS, die system hangs
>> while trying the module aic7xxx. It's installed an AIC7899 dualchannel
>> onboard in the server (IBM IntelliPro M [6850]). Ther are no IDE
>> harddisk
>> devices in the computer.
>
> It sometimes takes a while for the aic7xxx driver to load up on the
> initial install (it has to do a SCSI bus reset, then a spinup, then a
> probe of the drives).  This has been known to take over three minutes
> in some cases.  Did you wait that long?

Hi Rick,

I've waited more than 30 minutes... Just tested the Server with other
Linux versions like Knoppix_3.8 and with WindowsXP. Knoppix took 30
seconds for probing...

So I don't know, why RHEL4 doesn't recognize the controller correctly.

Thank you
Oliver