Hi, me again - sorry for pestering the list again, but this: [snip] >[ 15.020000] Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.20 >[ 15.072000] Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation >[ 15.136000] Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.20 >[ 15.220000] mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup >[ 15.760000] ioc0: LSI53C1030 B2: Capabilities={Initiator,Target} >[ 16.328000] scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030 B2, FwRev=01032341h, Ports=1, MaxQ=255, IRQ=66 >[ 43.872000] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=000000007f29e300) >[ 43.960000] scsi 0:0:6:0: CDB: >[ 44.000000] cdb[0]=0x12: 12 00 00 00 24 00 >[ 54.176000] mptscsih: ioc0: WARNING - Issuing Reset from mptscsih_IssueTaskMgmt!! doorbell=0x24000000 >[ 55.584000] mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (rv=2002) (sc=000000007f29e300) >[ 55.680000] scsi target0:0:6: asynchronous >[ 55.928000] mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! (sc=000000007f29e300) [etc] Turned out to be a broken disk which blocked the SCSI-bus! Once I pulled it, the remaining disk got recognized just fine from the experimental gentoo install CD (from http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/hppa/livecd). Sorry for the fuss and thanks for helping me to see the obvious, CU, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: Ulrich.Teichert@xxxxxx | Listening to: Stormweg 24 |Pale Bride (The Von Bondies), Slip Away (Sedatives) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Sacred Decay (The Estranged), She's Lost Control -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html