On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:58:03PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Similar error previously reported by me for 2.6.17-rc1, except sda got > added fine: error occurred when attempting to add/register sdb. Actually you're right. I'm rereading the logs and the first device on a scsi bus is always registered correctly. The sh*t hits the fan when you have more than one sd device per bus. (I've got 2 devices on one, and 3 on the other and only the first one on each got registered correctly). > Thankfully, you were able to append a trace... I used the serial console. > I'll be trying the just-released 2.6.17-rc2 this evening. Report to > follow, and if there's a problem, I'll attempt to provide the trace > (will have to be transcribed by hand, as system won't come up far > enough for syslog to capture anything). If syslog doesn't come up and depending on the state of your system you could redirect dmesg output to a file. -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer mchouque@xxxxxxx - : 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