Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:36:00 +0100 From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@mitgroep.card.azr.nl> To: "W. Wade, Hampton" <whampton@staffnet.com> Cc: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@virtualynx.com>, AIC7xxx <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: problem using the aha2940 card with linux 2.0.35 (& 2.1.117) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9808250929001.26472-100000@mitgroep.card.azr.nl> In-Reply-To: <35E2272A.5B2BB6E9@staffnet.com>
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote: > Tani Hosokawa wrote: > > > The Slackware 3.5 AHA2940 boot disk works with this card (it's using a > > 2.0.34 kernel), however when I try to build a 2.0.35 kernel using the > > AIC7xxx driver enabled, it doesn't work. This is what /proc/pci reports > > to me about the card: > > I have similar problems with 2.0.35 and my 2940. 2.0.34 worked fine, but > since my boot disk is SCSI, I can't boot with 2.0.35. > > Also, with 2.1.117, I can boot (after a few errors are reported), but my > SCSI CD-ROM is identified as a disk and hence is not usable. Apparently > when I boot 2.1.117, I mess up the SCSI bus (CD-ROM?) and when I > subsequently boot to NT, my CD-ROM is still FUBAR. The only way to > go between 2.1.117 and NT is via a shutdown/poweroff/poweron sequence! My 2490u worked with 2.0.33 2.0.34 and 2.0.35 under slackware... The Debian Hamm install hang when it came around to my 2940u... so I installed it using the slackware kernel which I luckily still had :) Then I recompiled the same kernel (which was on the Debian CD) and it ran OK... FYI I had the following drives attached: Plextor 12x Iomega Jaz 1Gb Iomega Zip 100 And I've also installed slackware with a 2.0.35 kernel on both a zip and on a jaz.... simply set the correct ID and boot :) I now use the 2940 in my dedicated linux machine running Debian... And I've tested the P2B-DS board with two 266mhz P2's and the 7890 chipset ,which is my NT-X-Term, with Debian and the new pre7 drivers and they run like a charm.... note this is _with_ SMP active :) And SMP under linux works better than under NT as I've tested last weekend... on bizarre where it runned for 48h's in one go without problems... Jeroen Massar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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