Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:46:17 -0500
From:      Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To:        "Kronenwetter, Paul" <paul.kronenwetter@lmco.com>
Cc:        "'Wheeler John-FJW250 '" <fjw250@email3.mims.mot.com>, "''AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG' '" <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Two SCSI controllers
Message-ID:  <38C56A99.1BCD8081@redhat.com>
References:  <4B55904D9AC9D1119BA40000F81E49C7026FE21E@emss04m10.ems.lmco.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Kronenwetter, Paul" wrote:
> 
> When you select the option that you have a SCSI device, go through the
> virtual consoles (Alt-F[23456]) and see if there's anything "bad" in them.
> The problem I had with 6.1 is the driver hung (or did something bad) after
> displaying the AIC7xxx hosts just before it announced the disks/cdrom drive
> on them.  Doug has made several updates to the AIC7xxx driver specifically
> for that chipset, so it may indeed be a SCSI problem.

It's more likely a Red Hat 6.0 kernel problem.  In 6.0 we made the mistake of
turning on the PROBE_ALL_LUNS option of the driver and that kills some CD-ROM
drives that don't like having higher luns probed.  In 6.1 and later we turned
that option off.

-- 

 Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>  http://people.redhat.com/dledford
      Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before
                      e-mailing me about problems


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?38C56A99.1BCD8081>