we finally got a new case, motherboard, and a bigger hard drive for duo. The motherboard is an Intel 440GX+; and after a bios update we were even able to install redhat 7.3 (only took 2.5 hrs to get to this point - would hang on aix7xxx previously)!

Now that redhat is install, however, the aix7xxx driver 'dump's on every scsi id and resets the controller (or drive, not sure), and it takes probably 30 minutes for it to boot. This is clearly not acceptable. Must find a solution...