Adaptec Raid Showstopper

Hal Burgiss hal at burgiss.net
Fri Oct 16 16:18:15 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:32:23PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> In the midst of trying to upgrade a Dell Poweredge server from gentoo to
> Ubuntu 8.04, we have hit a problem with the scsi raid controller. Essentially,
> the installation goes fine, but the system will not boot due to scsi timeout
> errors. It seems to be a more severe variation of this:
> 
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/249964
> 
> Same error messasges, but the system completely hangs. Does anyone know of a)
> a workaround or fix for 8.04 or b) any version of Ubuntu that might work with
> this controller. Thx.

For the record, this was resolved with a BIOS upgrade of the controller.

-- 
Hal




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