Hi, Just for comparison purposes, I have an Adaptec 29160 in my PC and it runs just fine under 2.6.15. To wit, ishikawa@duron$ uname -a Linux duron 2.6.15.6-test-tmscsim #6 Wed Mar 29 02:02:01 JST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux ishikawa@duron$ dmesg | grep 160 <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs target0:0:2: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 127) ishikawa@duron$ I suspect that there may be some configuration issues. I mean maybe some configuration differences might explain why your box sees the problem while mine doesn't. I notice that I don't have libata, for example, since I have no sata disks in my two/three years old PC. It might be wise to forget about 2.6.14 and try the latest 2.6.15.x series. Mun Hamlet wrote: > After git bisecting... I found this > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0a7e574007fd547d72ec693bfa35778623d0738;hp=10c1b88987d618f4f89c10e11e574c76de73b5e7 > > > could be causing the problem. > > To verify the result, I applied this patch to vanilla 2.6.13 > At least it boots, but this is the output I obtained: > ... omission ... -- int main(void){int j=2006;/*(c)2006 cishikawa. */ char t[] ="<CI> @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.,\n\""; char *i ="d>qtCIuqivb,gCwe\np@.ietCIuqi\"tqkvv is>dnamz"; while(*i)((j+=(int)strchr(t,*i++)-(int)t),(j%=sizeof t-1), (putchar(t[j])));return 0;}/* under GPL */ - : 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