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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:32:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: aic0: problems?
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Warner Losh wrote:

> Has anybody successfully booted on a system that has an aic0 in
> 2.1.5R?

  Yes, an Adaptec 1510

> I tried it on a frankenstein here, and discovered that it paniced for
> historical reasons :-).
> 
> aic at line xxxx: SCSI-FIFO didn't drain.
> panic: for historical reasons
> 
> Has anybody seen this?  We double checked to make sure that the aic
> card was at 0x340 irq 11 with the easy scsi 152x config program.  When
> we moved this to irq12, the panic went away, but it didn't find
> anything on the bus either :-(.
> 
> Comments?

  The aic driver is very poor (and very slow), and should probably be
avoided. 

> Warner
> 
> 

Tom