Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:04:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Isely <isely@enteract.com> To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Cc: "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@endoframe.com> Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec 2842 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000927145334.97196A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009210034020.2429-100000@bonezero.endoframe.com>
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Since nobody on the list posted anything to follow-up on this, I started talking to Braden. It caught my attention because he must be one of the remaining 4 people in the world (or so it seems) who still has a configuration using the old VL-bus 2842 controller. A while back there was some breakage related to the 2842 that was fixed in version 5.1.29 of the driver. The current version on Doug's page is 5.1.31, which I was pretty sure worked for me. But just to be certain, I tested it, building a pristine 2.2.16 kernel patched up to this version of the driver. It worked fine. Then I did what Braden did. I created a Red Hat 6.2 boot disk and used it in combination with Doug's driver update disk which is supposed to be up-to-date. I booted the exact same hardware with that disk combination. It failed precisely as Braden described below. I'm not a Red Hat user, but I followed the instructions as best as I saw (use "linux dd" when booting, insert the update disk when prompted, select the aic7xxx driver). Doug: Is it possible that the Red Hat driver update disk image on your web page is not entirely up-to-date? Unfortunately I never see aic7xxx version info printed from the Red Hat installation attempt. -Mike On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux 6.2 on an old 486 with an Adaptec 2842 > board. The installation is dying when it tries to load the SCSI driver. I > get: > > Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT. > In swapper task - not syncing > > I have tried the driver update disk available from Doug Ledford's page, > and it yields the same error message. However, the version of the driver > that shipped with RH 5.2 works just fine. Any suggestions? (Other than > give up and be happy with RH 5.2... :-) > > -- > Braden N. McDaniel e-mail: braden@endoframe.com > <http://www.endoframe.com>; Jabber: braden@jabber.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message > > > | Mike Isely | PGP fingerprint POSITIVELY NO | | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 UNSOLICITED JUNK MAIL! | isely @ pobox (dot) com | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 | (spam-foiling address) | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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