I get this with 2.6.13, due to some ppc64 specific errors: PCI: Enabling device: (0002:30:0c.0), cmd 143 sym0: <896> rev 0x7 at pci 0002:30:0c.0 irq 65 __sym_calloc2: failed to allocate HCB[2200] <NULL>: giving up ... RTAS: event: 71, Type: Internal Device Failure, Severity: 2 PCI: Enabling device: (0002:30:0c.1), cmd 143 sym0: <896> rev 0x7 at pci 0002:30:0c.1 irq 66 __sym_calloc2: failed to allocate HCB[2200] <NULL>: giving up ... attach_failed is used for more than one error. np->s.inst_name should be assigned earlier. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html