N440bx with SYM53c875 SCSI...hangs on loading driver

[Jacques Béland <jacquesbeland cogeco ca>]

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I have an Intel N440BX motherboard with SYM53C875 SCSI controller. When I try to install RedHat 9, the install hangs when loading the driver for the SYM53C875 card. Actually ALT-F4 gets me the status page and I can see the driver load. it recognizes the SCSI drives in the bay, then I get timeout errors:

 

SCSI Host 0 abort (pid xxyy) timed out - resetting

SCSI bus is being reset for Host 0 channel 0

SYM53C8xx_reset: pid 16 reset_flags=2 Serial # yy...

 

This looks identical to the problem discussed by Rick Stevens and Derek Ziglar back in Jult of 2002. Regretably, there is no solution posted.

I've tried the "noapic", "nodma" and "max_scsi_luns=0". I've searched REDHAT, GOOGLE and ask.com. Lots of reading out there, no solutions...yet?

 

 

Any hints/help would be appreciated.

 

Jacques