Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:19:02 +0100 From: Nick Taylor <nt@dataskill.co.uk> To: dledford@redhat.com Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aic 3940 problem Message-ID: <376E7405.5BF31538@dataskill.co.uk> References: <3768AC1B.4C04552F@dataskill.co.uk> <376E1DFF.99057404@redhat.com>
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--------------6FD329558F63ED1F9F88A99E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dledford@redhat.com wrote: > Nick Taylor wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > So is anyone out there using 3940s with recent linux and aic drivers? Here I > > have now > > reverted to a 2940 with no problems, the 3940 hangs the system as soon as a > > second drive > > becomes active even when only using a single channel. > > > > This is since upgrading to SuSE 6.0 kernel 2.0.36, aic 5.1.5 and seems to > > happen on all > > subsequent versions that I downloaded. > > > > Is anyone having the same problem?? > > I made some changes to the 5.1.17 version of the aic7xxx driver that might > effect your problem. That driver is in the 2.2.10 kernel now. If you could > try that and let me know if it doesn't solve your problem, I would appreciate > it. > Have tried 5.1.17 with kernel 2.0.36 but it is still the same, as soon as 2 drives talk at the same time the system just dies. I don't know what else I can tell you to be of more help apart from the fact that all was fine with 2.0.33 :-( However we couldn't remain libc5 based for ever. Nick --- > > -- > Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> > Opinions expressed are my own, but > they should be everybody's. -- Nick Taylor mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk Dataskill, London, England mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org HOME OF REFLEXOLOGY http://www.reflexology.org --------------6FD329558F63ED1F9F88A99E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> dledford@redhat.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Nick Taylor wrote: <br>> <br>> Hi <br>> <br>> So is anyone out there using 3940s with recent linux and aic drivers? Here I <br>> have now <br>> reverted to a 2940 with no problems, the 3940 hangs the system as soon as a <br>> second drive <br>> becomes active even when only using a single channel. <br>> <br>> This is since upgrading to SuSE 6.0 kernel 2.0.36, aic 5.1.5 and seems to <br>> happen on all <br>> subsequent versions that I downloaded. <br>> <br>> Is anyone having the same problem?? <p>I made some changes to the 5.1.17 version of the aic7xxx driver that might <br>effect your problem. That driver is in the 2.2.10 kernel now. If you could <br>try that and let me know if it doesn't solve your problem, I would appreciate <br>it. <br> </blockquote> Have tried 5.1.17 with kernel 2.0.36 but it is still the same, as soon as 2 drives talk at the same time the system just dies. I don't know what else I can tell you to be of more help apart from the fact that all was fine with 2.0.33 :-( However we couldn't remain libc5 based for ever. <p>Nick <br>--- <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>-- <br> Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> <br> Opinions expressed are my own, but <br> they should be everybody's.</blockquote> <pre>-- Nick Taylor <A HREF="mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk">mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk</A> Dataskill, London, England <A HREF="mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org">mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org</A> HOME OF REFLEXOLOGY <A HREF="http://www.reflexology.org">http://www.reflexology.org</A></pre>; </html> --------------6FD329558F63ED1F9F88A99E-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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