Hello,

I'm not sure if this is has been a common problem, but I've been unable to
locate any other information about it.

I have a Diamond Fireport 40 dual controller and a couple basic scsi drives
and a cdrom (I can get their stats if needed), and I'm unable to get it to
boot correctly using the 2.2.x series of kernels.  The system works
wonderfully with 2.0.34 and 2.0.36.  I have tried two methods of installing a
2.2 kernel.

A) Downloaded the source and all the patches up to 2.2.4, successfully patched
'em together and used make xconfig.

B) Picked up a cheapbytes Redhat 5.9 beta CD and tried the auto-install.

with (B), the install system hangs attempting to detect the cdrom.  It is able
to find the NCR53C8XX chipset, but that's it.

With (A), I've tried a number of ways, including Redhat upgrades, pure source
upgrades, Debian kpkg upgrades.  I'm afraid I'm probably missing some
information in there somehow, because it always gives me the same result. 
Where the kernel normally (under 2.0.x) finds the NCR53C875 chipset, the 2.2.x
kernels (I've tried each patch up to 2.2.4) all attempt to detect the
NCR53C876 chipset.  Then it resets itself (I don't recall the precise message,
but I may be able to write it down), says something about loading scripts, and
then repeats that process endlessly.

Anyway, if there's a fix available somewhere, I've love to find it.  No search
engine seems to be able to find it. :) Any help at all would be appreciated...

Thanks (and hope I don't sound too stupid...)

Jesse


Jesse Griffis
GIS Tech/Programmer
Ecology & Environment, Inc.
Buffalo, NY.

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