FC3 boot hang (symbios)

[John Connor]

John Connor wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I had FC1 running on my PII SMP machine quite happily. I decided to 
> upgrade to FC3. The upgrade went OK but, on booting, the kernel hangs 
> when it gets to the Symbios SCSI drivers. Symbios chip is, I think, 
> SYM53C875. Output is as follows:
>
> sym0: SCSI Bus has been reset
> scsi0: sym-2.1.l8j
> sym0:0:0 ABORT operation started
> sym0:0:0 ABORT operation timed out
> sym0:0:0 DEVICE RESET operation started
> sym0:0:0 DEVICE RESET operation timed out
> sym0:0:0 BUS RESET operation started
> sym0:0:0 BUS RESET operation timed out
> sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset
>
> If anyone has any ideaa, I would be glad to hear them! System is 
> useless atm.
>

To reply to my own post,  I have tried the ordinary (i.e. non-SMB) 
kernel and it works fine. I shall continue to investigate....


Cheers

John