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Date:      17 Nov 1998 17:00:37 -0700
From:      glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)
To:        Barry <bazza@bazza.com>
Cc:        AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with AIC-7895
Message-ID:  <sa73e7hswd6.fsf@chtorr.cs.sandia.gov>
In-Reply-To: Barry's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:24:12 %2B0000 (GMT)"
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.981117232309.31478A-100000@leo.bazza.com>

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Barry <bazza@bazza.com> writes:
| On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:
| 
| >On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Barry wrote:
| >> it's 2.00
| >Contact Tyan and try to get a BIOS downgrade and see if maybe they
| >re-introduced the bug or something.  Short of that, older aic7xxx versions
| >(such as the 5.1.0-pre15 driver or something like that) had an option
| >called irq_hack (I think) that worked around the problem.  I removed that
| >code around the final 5.1.0 release, but if you could grab an older patch
| >and try that code out, then it would either pin point the problem, or
| >eliminate that as a possible problem.
| 
| can you give me a pointer of anywhere to get the old driver? I can't get
| connected to ftp.redhat.com at the minute, and I don't know of any mirrors
| that mirror more than the contrib and actual dist dits 

You can still get them from dialnet
(ftp://ftp.dialnet/pub/linux/aic7xxx). You'll have to get a raw copy
of the kernel though to apply the patches to. I think pre15 was
against kernel 2.0.34.

Gary

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