aic79xx abort during boot

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>> 2) What other devices are on the same PCI/PCI-X bus.
>> 
> 
> There are (2) Ultra 320 Internal IBM SCSI drives.  There is also an external
> Raid which is currently powered off while we try to resolve this issue.  The
> raid worked with the initial RH8.0 install, but we could not see multiple
> luns.  This was another reason we were trying to rebuild the kernel from
> source.

These are SCSI devices.  What other *PCI* devices are on the same
PCI bus as the U320 controller.

>> 3) What devices are you using and with what firmware revision.
>> 
> 
> Not quite certain of which other devices and the corresponding firmware
> revisions you are referring to here.  Hopefully the above info is a step in
> the right direction though. --Thanks

I need to know the firmware revisions for the IBM drives.  The most
likely cause of your problem is running down-rev firmware on the IBMs.
The IBM firmware only stabilized a few months ago.

--
Justin