Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:17:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Erik Walthinsen <omega@cse.ogi.edu> To: dledford@dialnet.net Cc: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: aic7890 in Dell Poweredge failing on probe Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990702165936.19617B-100000@church.cse.ogi.edu>
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We just got a Dell Poweredge 6300 here at work, but we're having installation problems. RedHat 6.0's installer gets to probing the aic7xxx driver, at which point the screen blanks (monitor goes into power-saving mode), the system completely locks, and even the power supply fans spin down to a lower speed... Now, Dell ships these things with RedHat pre-installed (only the 1024KB cache versions, not the 512KB cache, don't ask me why), so I know these things are *supposed* to work just fine... Dell won't be able to help much until Tuesday, since everyone there that knows anything about Linux has already gone home for the long weekend. It appears that as of kernel 2.2.1 the aic7xxx 5.1.10 driver is standard, and 5.1.11 is the latest. Is this indeed the case, and if so, does 5.1.11 change stuff that might be relevant? Alternately, is there a known set of options necessary to get the driver to work properly on this particular machine? Anyone out there with one of these things, either pre-installed, or installed themselves, that can check their conf.modules and see what's up? TIA, Omega Erik Walthinsen <omega@cse.ogi.edu> - Staff Programmer @ OGI Quasar project - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/quasar/ Video4Linux Two drivers and stuff - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/v4l2/ __ / \ SEUL: Simple End-User Linux - http://www.seul.org/ | | M E G A Helping Linux become THE choice _\ /_ for the home or office user To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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