I've tried all these options...regardless of ACPI being enabled or
disabled the driver still does not see the SCSI drive, both of my cdroms
are seen though.

Justin, I would be willing to test the 6.2.36 aic7xxx driver or variant
of if it was made available for 2.6.0-test3 kernel.

It will be a little while before I can get my own distributions up
and running in the 2.6 stream.  I hope to start looking at this next
week.

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Justin