On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Allen Curtis wrote: > I have an Adaptec 2960UW SCSI controller in a Tyan II motherboard with 2 > Pentium processors. I had been running this with the SMP kernel with RH > Linux 6.2 but it has not worked since I upgraded to the 7.X RedHat versions. > When the system is booting and doing the SCSI probe the requests timeout, > apparently because the driver does not receive the interrupt. It works with > a single processor kernel but I am trying to get the most out of my old 166 > processors. > > Any pointers about how to use both cylinders again? (I have tried the SCSI > adapter in multiple PCI slots. I also had an I-Will SCSI-3 adapter, thought > it was faulty and reverted to the Adaptec with the same results.) You can try running an SMP kernel with 'noapic' kernel parameter if all else fails, does specifying/not specifying plug 'n play OS help in any way? Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
