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Apparent SCSI failure on HP Vectra Xu Debian 2.1 install...

[Subject was "RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0"]

Thanks to those who have responded, for the help so far.

I am still attempting to install debian 2.1 onto an
HP Vectra Xu box with SCSI disks.  The boot from the
resc1440 floppy fails after the "RAMDISK: Compressed
image found at block 0" line.  The same thing happens
when booting from the CDROM, and when using the resc1440
image from the potato unstable release.

I was successful in installing Debian 2.0 by booting from
the official Debian 2.0 CDROM, so then I tried to boot the
debian 2.1 CDROM as a rescue disk with
"boot: rescue root=/dev/sda1".  This eliminates all of
the discussion about corrupt floppies.

But, it still stalls at the same point as before,
except it now displays some error messages:
  "(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 2/0
   (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
   (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
    ...
    scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
    ...
    VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
    put_dirty_page: page already exists
    scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
    pid 61, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,
    Read (6) 00 c4 36 10 00"
followed by the following messages over and over:
  SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 60) timed out - trying harder
  SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
  SCSI host 0 abort (pid 60) timed out - resetting.
  SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.

When I repeat it with a floppy root disk
"boot: rescue root=/dev/fd0" I get the general protection
fault with the tail of the log (manually copied from screen):

VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 12,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0xdc,cs=7316,#f=218,fs=43612,fl=6017,ds=44598,de=61447,
 data=48492,se=61299,ts=665234384,ls=30684,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size = 512
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<0012029d>]
EFLAGS: 00010006
eax: 00000080   ebx: 06ffa000   ecx: ffffffff   edx: 00000006
esi: 0024fb68   edi: 0024fb68   ebp: 00000000   esp: 0009acb4
ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 0018   ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=0009a000)
Stack:
00480bf0 00000000 00000400 06ffb000 00000002 00000006 00000080 0024fb68
ffaa0055 00000246 00127f21 0000004c 00000006 00480bf0 00000000 00000400
0009b414 00000000 0012803b 00480bf0 0012807d 00000400 06ffb000 00000001
Call Trace:
[<00127f21>] [<0012803b>] [<0012807d>] [<001286e5>] [<001286fb>]
[<00127107>] [<00127551>] [<00127872>] [<00127d22>] [<00170e5f>]
[<00120000>] [<00129ad3>] [<0012a56c>] [<0012a645>] [<00130c2d>]
[<0010ac15>] [<00121550>] [<00120018>] [<00210018>] [<001097fa>]
[<00109512>] [<00109519>] [<0010976c>]
Code: 81 39 aa ff 55 00 0f 85 23 01 00 00 8b 41 04 89 43 04 8b 43

I am using the Linux Central i386 disc 1 "Debian GNU/Linux Release 2.1"
CDROM.  Does anyone have any ideas on where I should look next?

Gary
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