From owner-aic7xxx Mon Dec 13 15:52:14 1999 Delivered-To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (devserv.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49EA614D8A for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 15:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dledford@redhat.com) Received: from aic-cvs.devel.redhat.com ([10.0.0.25]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA06652; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:52:03 -0500 Received: from redhat.com (IDENT:dledford@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aic-cvs.devel.redhat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04696; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:53:22 -0500 Message-ID: <385586EF.769619D1@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:53:20 -0500 From: Doug Ledford Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-29 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert L. Brown Jr." Cc: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC7XXX for SMP kernel References: <3.0.32.19991213153238.0098a430@corp.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Robert L. Brown Jr." wrote: > > Can anybody tell me what version of Linux has an aic7xxx driver > that will work in an SMP compiled kernel? > > I compiled 2.2.13, 2.2.5-12, 2.2.12-20 and both have bad aic7xxx drivers > for SMP compiled kernels. I keep getting reset and timout loops on my > 2940UW Adaptec card everytime during boot. > > Has anyone with an SMP board and an Adaptec 2940 successfully compiled a > Linux kernel and the aic7xxx driver that work? No, of course not! The aic7xxx driver and SMP kernels never have and never will work!! (sometimes I honestly wonder just how many SMP systems there are out there running the aic7xxx driver right now....) Ho, hum....use the option noapic when booting the kernel and see if that doesn't solve your problem....and you might want to try searching email archives next time before emailing everyone under the sun... -- 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