Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:39:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com> To: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> Cc: "Patrick D. Wildi" <patrick@wildi.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2.0.35 and aic7xxx Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717163523.21557A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <35AF2365.60AB7A42@dialnet.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Still doesn't work. More indepth system specs: Dell OptiPlex GXpro PP200 96MB EDO ECC AHA2940 Ultra Wide BIOS v1.23 Seagate ST15150N NEC 462 CDROM Errors I see: Aborting command due to time out: pid 1, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 0x12 00 00 00 ff 00 then forever: scsi host 0 abort (pid 1) time out - trying harder scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 I'm going to try 2.0.34 (last kernel I used was 2.0.31)... On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Doug Ledford wrote: > Patrick D. Wildi wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Aaron D. Turner wrote: > > > > > Just thought I'd let people know that the 2940 Ultra-Wide with the > > > "1.24 Dell05" BIOS does work. Still can't get BIOS version 1.23 to work > > > though. > > > > I have a 2940UW with 1.23 BIOS. Linux 2.0.35 (and 34) have no problem > > finding my first HD (WD WDE2170-1807A1) ultra-wide) but only sporadically > > finds my second HD (IBM DCAS 34330W, not ultra). > > > > I am having this problem since the later 5.0.x aic7xxx driver versions. > > Haven't tried the 5.1.x prereleases. The old 4.x drivers (with 2.0.33 > > and earlier) worked fine. > > > > Playing around with the BIOS settings did not help much (just make > > if more likely to find the HD), but did fix another problem I had > > with 2.0.34 (SCSI CD was not recognized). > > I would strongly suggest that anyone having problems like these with the > aic7xxx driver give the 5.1.0 pre releases a shot. The current pre release > is pre3 and was just released this morning. The major advantage here is > that this release should work quite well on all non-Ultra2 cards and on > Ultra2 it should actually work now as long as you are using Ultra2 devices > on the Ultra2 controller. There appears to be a problem still yet with > narrow, single ended devices on Ultra2 controllers. If someone gets their > Ultra2 controller to work with a narrow, single ended device, I would > appreciate knowing. > > For those that don't know, the location is > ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing for the pre-release patches, and > for pre3 there are patches against 2.0.34, 2.0.35, 2.1.108, and 2.1.109. > - -- Aaron Turner | Either which way, one half dozen or another. aturner@pobox.com | Check out the RedHat Linux User's FAQ Online! www.pobox.com/~aturner | http://www.pobox.com/~aturner/RedHat-FAQ/ All emails from this account are PGP signed. Lack of a signature is "bad". PGP Key fingerprint = FB E1 CE ED 57 E4 AB 80 59 6E 60 BF 45 1B 20 E8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNa/gmTM3jpXy1kJtAQErjgP9G8MEKjIn+Ijy6U4akImyXWBFPBQ7KTsA GEGZTJLf7YMLoSqzpwjn9KhR4yMk+F5vmNN6HII0yIC+TZ16C1y2dyvySNAqVC1p xoeR5HbahC/jhRnbXL4uIIdKcF2QHEmI+29AI18NiQhZrNFKB9Cwgvx4fkD/koqK YK1iB3yoNWs= =rFGR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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