Well, I had hoped to be able to provide a definitive answer but my notes
don't state the fix!  

However: John may be on to the right track because I believe we did the
installs with the array disconnected from the controller - the driver
then loaded quickly.  Our set up in this case has an internal system
disk and a separate data array on the LSI controller.  The 'driverload='
bit just gets the drivers loaded in the correct order.

	Martin.
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Martin Bly
RAL Tier1 Fabric Team 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of John Hearns
> Sent: 29 November 2007 06:58
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> Subject: Re: SL5 installation failed because of mptspi?
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:11 -0800, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > 
> > It takes the installer a LONG time to load the SCSI module 
> "mptspi", 
> > this module appears to cause a lot problems, the keys on 
> the keyboard 
> > (USB or PS2) are unresponsive except CONTROL-ALT-DELETE, 
> DHCP and NFS 
> > all seem to fail.
> 
> If you have problems with a disk or disk controller being slow to load
> or be recoginsed by udev,  there is a boot time parameter
> udev_timeout
> 
> On the boot stanza in grub or lilo add udev_timeout=NN  where NN is in
> seconds
> 
> I would think that your problem is not this, as the symptoms sound
> different. Martin will have the answer for you.
> I provide the udev_timeout tip for information - might help with older
> hardware.
>