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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:11:07 -0000
From:      "buffalo6262" <buffalo@radix.net>
To:        aic7xxx@freebsd.org
Subject:   AIC 7902, RedHat 7.3 Kernel Upgrade Problem
Message-ID:  <cmu76b%2Bnema@eGroups.com>

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Greetings,

I've just set up a Supermicro dual xeon box with an onboard AIC 7902
controller with RedHat 7.3 (I'd love to use RH Enterprise 3 on this
box, but I have legacy software I can't abandon won't run on anything
newer than 7.3).

Naturally, as the stock kernel doesn't support the 7902, I had to
install using a driver disk. No problem there, the machine came up
without a hitch.

However, when I attempt to upgrade the kernel, using YUM via the
fedora legacy system, the newer kernel can't boot past initialization
of my 7902.

It recognizes the controller (and both of it's channels) in an
apparently normal way, (though the driver, 1.0.0?) complains:

MEM region 0x0 unavailable

Finally, after about a minute, I get an error:

abort called for cmd c24dbe00

and everything stops.

The upgraded fedora legacy kernel I'm trying to install is:

2.4.20-37.7.legacy (SMP)

Strangely enough, I have a nearly identical box I set up about a year
ago, which went through the same upgrade process without a hitch,
albeit going through official RedHat kernel upgrades before they
abandoned 7.3 and I started moving into the fedora legacy stuff. I
still get the error:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
aic79xx: PCI3:1:0 MEM region 0x0 unavailable. Cannot memory map device.
aic79xx: PCI3:1:1 MEM region 0x0 unavailable. Cannot memory map device.
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 1.0.0

when booting, but it boots just fine regardless.

I've tried installing the updated 7902 driver via RPM (I got this from
Justin's site) after installing the later kernel and source, but I get
several error messages complaining that the RPM doesn't have any
prebuilt modules for my newer kernel version when I try to install it.

If anyone can provide any suggestions as to how to move forward here,
I'd greatly appreciate it.

TIA for any and all responses,

--Duncan








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