SCSI adapter preventing boot

[Madison Kelly]

A couple things I would check;

   Is the SCSI ID of the Scanner set to the ID of the boot device in the 
adapter's config? Try setting the boot ID# to 0 and set the scanner to 
ID 6.

   Secondly, I ha a customer a while back have boot problems with a RAID 
controller that turned out to be a GRUB problem. He switched to Lilo and 
the problem was solved (I'm sorry, I can't remember the details.).

HTH!

Madison

Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> I have an old Adaptec 2940 (aic7870) PCI SCSI board driving a Minolta 
> film scanner and an old Sony CD-ROM. This seemed to work okay on Redhat 
> 7.3.
> 
> On upgrading to Gentoo 1.4 (which only took five days ...) it seems to 
> lock the boot process into a loop. I'm getting messages like:
> 
> host 1 abort timed out - bus is being reset
> (scsi:0:-1:-1) Disconnected list inconsistency ...
> Yikes! There is a loop in the free list ...
> 
> and this goes on and on, bumping the pid up by one as it goes.
> 
> The card passes its own self test, and identifies the devices correctly. 
> Knoppix 3.2 will boot (eventually), but it has disabled the adapter.
> 
> Broken card? Broken PCI slot? Termination weirdness? New aic7xxx driver 
> issues?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
>  Stewart
> 
> (uname -a:
> Linux groundhog 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 #1 Thu Oct 23 08:27:01 EDT 2003 i686 
> AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux)
> 

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