This is not limited to the 2010S or 2100S cards; it's occuring with my AIC7899 as well. Dmesg entry, now that I've got it to boot up using a workaround:
[42949394.220000] scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0 [42949394.220000] <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> [42949394.220000] aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs -- Improper Installation with Adaptec RAID 2010S https://launchpad.net/bugs/52956 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs