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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 06:44:13 -0500
From:      Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@w3.org>
To:        Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc:        AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Strange interaction between ParPort and AIC7xxx in 2.2.0-prex
Message-ID:  <19990111064413.A6375@w3.org>

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  Hi all,

 I'm facing something really weird. I'm currently using a P133, with a 
3 years old 2940UW, on an old ASUS MB. The machine has proved being
stable under 2.2.0-pre5.
 Recently I tried to use the PLIP module and couldn't insert the module
the parallel port driver was compiled in. So I recompiled a kernel with
the parallel port support (and PC HW version) compiled as a module. 
 To my surprise, at the reboot the AIC7xxx driver hung in the following
sequence:
-----
aborting command due to timeout Pid 0 Scsi 0 channel 0 Id 0 Lun 0
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out -resetting
bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
-----
and the loop on trying harder goes on indefinitely.

  I didn't believe that the change on the inclusion or not of the ParPort
would trigger the previous behaviour of the SCSI driver so I fetched pre6
and did two different compile on two different tree with the only single
difference in the configuration being the following:
------
diff linux-2.2.0-pre6-1/.config linux-2.2.0-pre6-2/.config
55,56c55,56
< CONFIG_PARPORT=y
< CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
---
> CONFIG_PARPORT=m
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
100c100
< CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
---
> CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
---------

  After successful compilation and installation, I tried to reboot the
linux-2.2.0-pre6-2 kernel and again the driver hung while the kernel
linux-2.2.0-pre6-1 booted fine, so this seems reproductible. 

  I'm puzzled, maybe there is some parallel port driver code initialization
which change some setting on my motherboard.

  Can someone else reproduce this ? Even better can someone else explain
and possibly fix that ?

Daniel

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