Comment 1 for bug 140906

For what it's worth ... Since the vendor (transtec) mostly supports Suse, I booted opensuse 10.2 into
rescue mode. This works, and all disks are recognized. There are fewer, yet some messages ("transmission
error" etc) from the aic79xx drivers as for dapper. The driver claims to be at version 3.0; the boot kernel, however, is only at 2.6.18. So maybe it is really some changes in the remaining SCSI system that change the stability
of the driver.

Two things I noted booting Suse: (1) It correctly identifies the Motherboard and Controller (Super Micro AIC-7902B U320) for whatever that's worth. (2) It loads the driver for the LSI Controller *after* the driver for the Adaptec
onboard controller, whereas the Ubuntuinstallers always load the mpt fusion driver (for LSI) first (as opposed to the working dapper system, where the load order is adaptec first, LSI second). I'd actually like to see whether the module loading order makes a difference. Can I force the install kernel not to load a module (I don't need the LSI controller during install; I'd rather the RAID be not touched ;-)