Simen Thoresen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently bashing things out with our 6100/200's, but now I've got a
> new toy to play with: 2 Dell 6300/400's. These are Quad Xeon NX chipset
> servers, with 256M ram, dual aic7890 and a aic7860 controllers (integrated)
> and once again Dell PowerRaid II (AMI megaraid) raid controllers.
>
> We're currently not using the raid controller, so that exits the equation.
>
> The symptom. When no devices are attached to either 7890, the box boots
> nicely from a Slackware 4.0.0 install floppy. No disks are available tho.
>
> When /any/ disk is attached to either aic7890, the box crashes totally
> while initializing the kernel (right after the PIIX4 not supported
> message). The boot disk uses kernel v 2.2.5, compiled with aic78xx support
> (non smp).
>
> The crash is total - no aiee. no panic. Just a black screen. I need to do a
> hard poweroff on the powersupply to turn the power off.
>
> When no devices are attached, both 7890 are detected and initialized
> without comments.
>
> What I plan to do: Compile a kernel with aic7890 support and note down
> which drivers are included, and see if that causes the same crash.
>
> Additional information: NT40 boots cleanly (aic7890 not supported), but
> doesn't recognize the aic7890 as such when the driver floppy is inserted.
> Solaris 2.7 x86 chokes too, but I haven't seen that myself yet.
>
> Any comments?
This is an FAQ by now. Use the option aic7xxx=no_probe when booting the
machine if the aic7xxx driver is compiled directly into the kernel or if
trying to do an install then make sure the aic7xxx driver is loaded with the
option aic7xxx=no_probe specified on the module insertion command line, aka
"insmod aic7xxx aic7xxx=no_probe".
--
Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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