[Techtalk] Aiee, Kernel Panic! with scsi device

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:40:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, stephanie1200 at netscape.net wrote:
> No, that's not me being cute, that's the kernelly wernelly being cute.
> 
> I have an athelon box from Penguin with a Symbios scsi host adapter 
> (NCR53c7,8xx) with and NCR scsi bios (NCR SDMS V3.0 PCI SCSI bios PCI 
> Rev 2.0) which, at one time, worked splendidly with my Yamaha external 
> scsi cdrw (CRW8424).
> 
> But then I had to go and reinstall.
...

I saw the words "kernel panic" and asked the local kernel guru.

Suggestion from there: take out the offending board and boot. What 
happens? If it all works then, you might be looking at a long 
session (like overnight) with memtest86 to check the RAM is still 
intact.

Telsa