Fedora Installation Conflict with sym53c8xx SCSI Driver (Modified by Matthew Walburn)

[Matthew Walburn]

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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 – 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 “sym53c8xx=safe:y” or “sym53c8xx=mpar:n”

	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!

- - -Matthew
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Matthew Walburn, RHCE, CCNA
Network Assistant - x. 3-4995
MIT Department of Mathematics
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