Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If the drive is unaccessible after the DV failure, even on a warm > reboot (which includes a SCSI bus reset), then the drive is flat > hung. Something done in the current code is breaking it. Ah. I had wondered if that was possible. > Can you get a boot with DV turned off and capture the log messages > and post them here please? I certainly can, but... > You already said it didn't help with the problem, I meant that I don't think I successfully disabled DV, because the boot messages were *identical*, except for the line where the kernel shows the "Kernel command line". I had added this argument at the end of the line: aic7xxx=dv:{0} I've re-read "aic7xxx.txt" and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If you can tell me how to disable DV, I'd be happy to give it a try. -- graham - : 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