[Bug 47957] Re: kernel 2.6.15-23-686 boot fails during SCSI (BusLogic) initialization

[khaj zrlo]

** Description changed:

  I have 2 systems with BusLogic SCSI controllers that fail during boot at
  the time the SCSI subsystem is initialized. These systems are both dual
  CPU (PII-450Mhz) with 1GB RAM and multiple SCSI disks.
  
  The SCSI cards are:
  SCSI storage controller: BusLogic BT-946C (BA80C30) [MultiMaster 10] (rev 08)
  (as reported by lspci)
  
  If I revert to kernel 2.6.12-10-686-smp, the systems boot without
  problem.
  
  But the system fails to get past the SCSI initialization with kernel
  2.6.15-23-686.
  
  If I turn off the "quiet" kernel boot parameter to see what is going on,
  quite a lot of output is printed on the console.
  
  Amongst all the SCSI initialization I see a few errors like this (copied by hand):
  0:0:9:0 scsi Device offlined not ready after error recovery
  
  But I didn't see anything that looked like an error preceding that
  message.
  
  The SCSI initialization takes much longer than usual (that is, much
  longer than a successful boot like with kernel 2.6.12-10-686-smp).
  
  Finally, the screen prints
  Done.
  Begin. Waiting for root filesystem.
  
  And then it complains that it can't access the root filesystem on
  /dev/sda3, prints out more errors about accessing offline devices, and
  drops to a BusyBox shell prompt.
  
  This bug looks very similar to bug 41061
- https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/41061
  I opened a new bug because it concerns a different SCSI driver, but if it is determined to be a dup of that bug, that's ok.

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kernel 2.6.15-23-686 boot fails during SCSI (BusLogic) initialization
https://launchpad.net/bugs/47957