hello joshua, thanks for your followups, had time again to look at your bug report. the trouble is quite shown in the troublesome dmesg and in the working cat /proc/modules. On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Joshua Rubin wrote: > I just tried installing etch with the beta2 installer. This system loaded the > floppy module before the cpqarray module, yet could not find the arrays > either. Still, the sarge system upgraded to etch works fine with the floppy > module loaded in the initramfs. adding the floppy seems to kick sym53c8xx at loading later: > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 > sym53c8xx 0000:00:01.0: device not supported > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:01.0 disabled > Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0) > cpqarray: Device 0x10 has been found at bus 0 dev 1 func 0 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 > cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0<4>cpqarray ida0: idaSendPciCmd Timeout out, see sym53c8xx disables your interrupt for cpqarray. try my theory and use instead of floppy: echo cpqarray > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules regenerate initramfs with update-initramfs -u. plese post the resulting dmesg. adding linux-scsi and Matthew Wilcox to cc. best regards -- maks - : 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
