Please read: sym0:0:0:phase change message problem!

[Francois Romieu]

Patrick <patrickm at myway.com> :
[...]
> People who are running a system using the sym53c8xx controler with SCSI
> drives,   can't use FC3, FC4t1 or RHEL4 (kernel 2.6.9-5.EL). Also
> CentOS4.0 has the same problem, but that's a different story ;-)

$ /sbin/lspci -v -s 02:09.0
02:09.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 26)
        Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI53C876/E PCI to Dual Channel SCSI Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 144, IRQ 177
        I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Memory at feafe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at feac0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>
$ /sbin/lsmod | grep sym
sym53c8xx              79577  12 
scsi_transport_spi     19521  1 sym53c8xx
scsi_mod              129801  4 sr_mod,sym53c8xx,scsi_transport_spi,sd_mod

Smoothly running a 2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp kernel (raid1 + p4 ht).

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Ueimor