Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: Vincent Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: "Robert L. Brown Jr." <rbrownjr@earthlink.net>, AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC7XXX for SMP kernel Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.9912140605320.12820-100000@step.polymtl.ca> In-Reply-To: <385586EF.769619D1@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Doug Ledford wrote: > 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... Sarcastic humour, Doug? heh? :) :) Actually, RH6.1 fixed a lot of things for me. I own a PC Server 704 (2*PPro, 512mb) with two onboard 2940UW and one 3940AUW. Moreover, I have two SCA backplanes inside the machine (SCSI ID6 on both 2940 chains) and I kept getting timeouts and resets with the later 2.0.3x (even with 5.1.x patches). I had to use "no_reset" aic7xxx option to get the machine to boot (even for a non-SMP kernel) and it worked fine once booted. RH6.1 made a lot of difference for me, it installed flawlessy, recognized all 4 scsi chains without "no_reset" , allowed me to install from /dev/scd1 (the quickest cdrom of the two I have) instead of /dev/scd0. I'm not getting resets or timeouts anymore.. :) Great stuff, thanks.. :) ,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-, Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering. STEP project. _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique. _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,. Linux Xview/OpenLook resources page _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~' http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote _.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._ coyote@step.polymtl.ca They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. - Robert Frost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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