[LUNI] intel L440GX+ SCSI bug

Tue Nov 23 23:59:56 CST 2004

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:31:19PM -0600, Jeff wrote:
> I have been unable to find anyone who has come up with a direct fix to

> the bug on the wide spread dual CPU intel L440GX motherboard and the 
> difficult installation of the AIC adaptec SCSI chip driver. I happen
to 
> have 5 of these machines (former "VA Linux" servers).
> 
> As far as I can tell this problem exists in Debian, the last version
of 
> red hat, the new Fedora core, SUSE and mandrake (at least).  This 
> problem manifests in that the installation hangs at the SCSI driver 
> installation and does not go forward.

In case anyone else wants the solution to this, I solved this on a
system with this exact motherboard and controller and the exact problem
of linux distros hanging on loading any version of the driver I could
find.

The solution was to do a bios upgrade of the motherboard, I didn't even
need to do a bios upgrade of the scsi controller. Once I upgraded the
motherboard bios I was away, no more hitches.

Hope this helps future people to venture down this thread since its top
hits on google :)

Cameron Baillie 
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