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Re: scsi module sym53c8xx fails on 1.0.1 PR3

To: Thomas Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: scsi module sym53c8xx fails on 1.0.1 PR3
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 18:49:35 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <994375428.32444.4.camel@tduffy-lnx.afara.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Thomas Duffy wrote:
> 
> Eric, et al.
> 
> I know this is probably not an XFS related thing, but a standard kernel
> breakage, but the sym53c8xx scsi module fails to load on 1.0.1 PR3 when
> booted off of the CD.  This works fine with XFS 1.0
> 
> the module attempts to load and sits there spining on scsi timeouts.  I
> cannot run the installer on this particular box without this module, so
> I will try to install with 1.0 and then boot off of new kernel or use a
> cvs version.

Very odd...

Since this is the Red Hat kernel, and it's not a rare scsi chipset, I'm
surprised that there's a problem with it... Hrm.  If you feel like
experimenting, you might get the original 2.4.3-12 BOOT kernel from Red
Hat, and see if it exhibits the same problem?

-Eric

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