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Greetings,
I'm trying to install Fedora Core 1.0 on an older VA Linux 501 server. It uses a SCSI controller built on the NCR/LSI 53c810 chip.
My problem is that I am unable to load the SCSI driver successfully. I get stuck in an endless loop of the following messages:
SCSI host 0 abort (pid0) timed out â resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=2 serial_number=XX serial_number_at_timeout=XX
Where XX begins with 0 and get incremented.
The part that is sort of frustrating is that this driver worked fine under Redhat 8, but was then broken under 9, which as kept me on 8 since. I had been hoping it would be fixed again under Fedora 1.0 so that I could finally upgrade.
The only messages I've been able to find on the web that point to possible solutions are:
1) boot with parameters âsym53c8xx=safe:yâ or âsym53c8xx=mpar:nâ
This did nothing.
2) somehow get the kernel to load the ncr53c8xx driver instead... apparently it's more stable.
Is there a way for me to force a particular driver at the linux install boot: prompt?
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks so much!
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