[rhn-users] New RHEL-AS-4

[Geoff Sweet]

I am going to have to assume that there must be bigger problems with the
aic79xx driver.  We are still waiting for a kernel fix that resolves a
kernel panic that occurs on our Dell servers.  It occurs when this
driver loads.  So far RH tech support can only tell us to build a custom
ram image using older drivers and wait for the next kernel release.  So
far 2 kernel releases have not resolved the issue (granted one of them
was a very minor release).  If there are going to continue to be
unexplainable issues with this driver, I am going to have to re-think
using RH.

What kills me, and no one can answer me this; two machines with
identical images (via ghost), one will have the kernel panic, the other
won't.  It is very inconsistent.  

Geoff Sweet
Internet Operations Engineer
WildTangent Inc


-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Richard Lefebvre
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:51 PM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] New RHEL-AS-4

I had tried the "linux noprobe" already, it gets me a bit further, but I
still need a the aic79xx driver at some point. So when I loaded later it
got stuck again (without the IRQ message).

Richard

GREG WOJTAK wrote:
> I remember seeing something about this with RHEL 3, where you had to
> give the aic79xx driver a noprobe option otherwise it would hang.  I'm
> sorry I can't remember the exact option, but maybe try Googling for
that
> and see if you can get that working.
> 
> 
> Greg Wojtak
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Sallie Mae
> (317) 598-4058
> 
> 
>>>>Richard.Lefebvre at rqchp.qc.ca 2/17/2005 4:26:57 PM >>>
> 
> Any one got the RHEL-AS-4 CD1 to work with a SCSI only for harddrives.
> 
> Basically, the CD boots OK up to the point of loading the SCSI
drivers,
> 
> at which point I get:
> 
> Loading SCSI Driver
> Loading aic79xx driver... Disabling IRQ #5
> 
> The disabling message appears about 30 seconds later with out the 
> colored background (i.e. error message) Then nothing happens.
> 
> The computer is OK since I was able to install AS-3 (update 4) last
> week 
> with no problem. I wanted to install the new from scratch since the 
> setup of the server wasn't finished yet.
> 
> Richard

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