RHEL4 and AIC7899

[Oliver]

>> >> during the first boot from the install CD of RHEL4AS, die system hangs
>> >> while trying the module aic7xxx. It's installed an AIC7899 dualchannel
>> >> onboard in the server (IBM IntelliPro M [6850]). Ther are no IDE
>> >> harddisk
>> >> devices in the computer.
>> >
>> > It sometimes takes a while for the aic7xxx driver to load up on the
>> > initial install (it has to do a SCSI bus reset, then a spinup, then a
>> > probe of the drives).  This has been known to take over three minutes
>> > in some cases.  Did you wait that long?
>> 
>>
>> I've waited more than 30 minutes... Just tested the Server with other
>> Linux versions like Knoppix_3.8 and with WindowsXP. Knoppix took 30
>> seconds for probing...
>> 
>> So I don't know, why RHEL4 doesn't recognize the controller correctly.

> Hmmm.  Have you tried installing in text mode and checking the output
> on the other three consoles (ALT-F2, ALT-F3, ALT-F4) to see if there's
> something displayed there that might give a clue?
> You didn't say if the CD was IDE or not (it may well be).  If that's the
> case, you might also try installing with DMA disabled for the IDE bus:
>         boot: linux ide=nodma

Now I downloaded the RHEL4AS Upd2 CDs and tried to install from them. I've
started the installation at the boot prompt with    linux ide=nodma text
There is one CD-ROM drives on each IDE channel.

Like before, it seems(?) to hang.
Here are the screens...

Installation screen shows:
  loading aic7xxx driver
Alt-F3 shows:
  loaded e100 from /modules/
  loaded aic7xxx from /modules
  inserted /tmp/mii.ko
  inserted /tmp/e100.ko
Alt-F4 shows:
  (6)e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr ...
  (6)ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:01.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level low) -> IRQ 10
  (6)ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:01.1[B] -> GSI 10 (level low) -> IRQ 10
  (6)scsi0: Adaptec AIC7xxx EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
  (4)       (Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter)
  (4)       aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI id=7, 32/253 SCBs
  (4)

Hope you can help me and you have an idea :)!?

Thank you in advance

Regards