Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:57:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Braden N. McDaniel" <braden@endoframe.com> To: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com> Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec 2842 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009271951450.31906-100000@bonezero.endoframe.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000927145334.97196A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Mike Isely wrote: > 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. Thanks a lot for helping to confirm the problem here. I dunno if it means anything or not, but I notice that the 6.2 driver disk has a file on it called "rhdd-6.1". -- 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
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