Hello! I have an Adaptec Utra160 SCSI card and the system freezes when it loads the aic7xxx module (both old and new versions). The issue is described in the following threads: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/3179.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Oct/3600.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Apr/1942.html (the one I reycled to write this mail) Possible personal solutions to be able to use the system: - compile my own kernel (not wished because I am not expert) - remove the aic7xxx module from the kernel system config and run mkinitrd and start the module manually (modprobe) (not wished either because only root can do it) Other facts: - It worked with the original 8.2 kernel but not with k_athlon 2.4.20-86 or k_athlon 2.4.20-100. - My root partition is on an IDE drive. - Starting the module aic7xxx at boot time through boot.local will also fail. Starting the module manually once the whole OS is up and running works just fine. I would really appreciate to receive some feedback from someone at SuSE because this issue has been lasting for a very long time. I would like to contribute a patch but searching for an issue in the kernel source might not be the easiest entry in the open source world. Thank you for your time! Patrick