Hello all,

perhaps someone has an idea why I have those problems.

I installed debian sarge and everything worked fine, a SCSI Raid system
attached to the internal Adapatec adapters is usable.

After updating with aptitude to a 2.6.8 kernel which better suites my hardware
(dual Xeon with EM64T) the aic79xx is still loaded but I cannot see a way to access
my storage system.

The relevant infos are those

boxx:~# uname -a
Linux boxx 2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp #1 SMP Thu Oct 7 16:01:47 CEST 2004 x86_64 GNU/Linux

boxx:~# lspci | grep -i Adaptec
0000:03:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)
0000:03:02.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7902B U320 (rev 10)

boxx:~# lsmod | grep aic
aic79xx 266588 0
scsi_mod 132992 3 aic79xx,sd_mod,libata

boxx:~# ls /proc/scsi
ata_piix device_info scsi

boxx:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.18
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.18
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05

boxx:~# rmmod aic79xx

boxx:~# modprobe aic79xx

boxx:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.18
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.18
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05

i.e. after unloading with "rmmod" and a manual reload with "modprobe"
the adapter itself still doesn't seem to be visible.
No hint appears in /var/log/messages.


Thanks for any hint

Axel