From owner-aic7xxx Wed Sep 27 18: 5: 0 2000 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from mail.shadow.net (mail.shadow.net [204.177.71.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A21B37B422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bonezero.endoframe.com (ppp-132.shadow.net [207.17.58.152]) by mail.shadow.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA19987; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:29:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (braden@localhost) by bonezero.endoframe.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA31913; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:57:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:57:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Braden N. McDaniel" To: Mike Isely Cc: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec 2842 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 Jabber: braden@jabber.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message