[3234] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Continuing troubles with Intel 4-CPU board with 2 788x's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Hsieh)
Fri Feb 6 08:48:11 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 22:50:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Hsieh <steveh@eecs.umich.edu>
To: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <s56yazpyie3.fsf@opus.MIT.EDU>
On 5 Feb 1998, Jered J Floyd wrote:
> Has anyone been able to successfully install RedHat 4.2, or other
> distribution that uses kernel 2.0.32, on this type of motherboard?
> It's my understanding that it's a fairly common model. Is there any
> way to tell the SCSI driver to stop looking after the first
> controller? Is there any way to make the driver stop retrying? (It
> seems a bug to have it loop endlessly) Do I need a newer revision of
> the aic788x driver? Any help would be appreciated.
I'm using Debian and have never encountered any problems on our Intel quad
processors with built-in 2 Adaptec aic7xxx controllers. We have two types
here: Dell Poweredge 6100 and some model from Netpower (which has an
additional 3rd 2940 controller in PCI slot 0). I have never gotten stuck
in the SCSI detection part in any kernel (2.0.30 thru 2.0.33, 2.1.78,
2.1.85). Some of our systems have drives in both controllers, while one
of our system has drives only on the first controller plus an IDE cdrom.
The part I have gotten stuck on, however, is the ethernet card, as it is
always assigned the same IRQ as the one of the aic7xxx's. So on the
stable kernels I have had to apply the irq sharing patch from Linux Mama
to get networking... It turns out that none of the stable ones work well
in SMP on our quads anyway though, so I run SMP 2.1.78 on all of them
now instead.
