From owner-aic7xxx Tue Apr 6 2: 2:56 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from lacrosse.redhat.com (lacrosse.redhat.com [207.175.42.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7036151C4 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 02:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dledford@redhat.com) Received: from redhat.com ([10.0.0.25]) by lacrosse.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA05976; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 05:00:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3709CD3B.75338057@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 05:00:43 -0400 From: Doug Ledford Organization: Red Hat Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, aic7xxx@freebsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: aic7xxx driver update Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've released the 5.1.14 version of the aic7xxx driver. This driver should fix the outstanding problems that I know of on all of the PCI class adaptec controllers. There may be some outstanding issues on EISA controllers. I will be verifying the EISA controllers later this week. There are several sections of code that underwent heavy modifications though. The most heavily modified is the device speed negotiation code. It's hoped that this code will be better than the previous code was, but it is in need of testing. Specifically, there are drives out there that will initiate negotiation with the controller isntead of waiting for the controller to start the negotiation process. That has traditionally been a spot of problems in the aic7xxx driver. If some of the people that have drives that initiate negotiation on their own could try out this code and report back to me, I would greatly appreciate it. The update can be found at ftp.redhat.com:/aic/5.1.14 and there are patches against a clean 2.0.36 or a clean 2.2.5 kernel. -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message