Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:14:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> To: Claus Beerta <claus.beerta@nwn.de> Cc: "aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG" <aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Strange . Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981019000936.26867E-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <362A4CF4.27D305B3@nwn.de>
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Claus Beerta wrote: > After beeing completely upset by my linux + SCSI killing itself every 5 > minutes, i checked > my kernel. It seemed everything O.K.. > Just for joke i changed the Kernel CFG. Added every ADAPTEC SCSI Driver, > > and added support for all types of SCSI Devices > (DISK,CDROM,TAPE,GENERIC) > recompiled everything, and voila it runs like hell. Every test i did was > ok so far. > (Copying Kernel sources from drive to drive, finding, compiling, every > type of > hard disk killing stuff) > > Could somebody explain this. ????? I can't explain it, but I routinely add support for all types of SCSI devices and only add the aic7xxx driver and do pretty well. I would worry about the scsi controller probing for a device and being confused if I didn't have all possible kinds of devices supported. You might try configuring your kernel just for aic7xxx (with 5.1.2 or the latest driver release) but include support for all types of SCSI devices and see if that also stabilizes your kernel. Either way, it would be useful data -- you made TWO changes (added all the drivers and added all the devices) and hench you don't know which change made the real difference. I know it is a pain to build/install/reboot and wait for kernel death, but I know because it is a pain I regularly inflict on myself to narrow down stuff like this. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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