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Re: aic7xxx-5.0.3.patch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. Wade)
Fri Feb 6 14:29:38 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 06:57:31 -0600
From: "D. Wade" <wade@onramp.net>
Reply-To: wade@onramp.net
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi,
I'm in a similar position with the equipment. Where does one find the
aic7xxx-5.0.3.patch? And what it corrects?
Thanks,
Donovan Wade
Mike Nachlinger wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I've got a linux box running 2.0.33 with your aic7xxx-5.0.3.patch
> installed. I added one of Granite Digital's 68/50 adapters w/active
> termination to my system at the time I patched the kernel. Controller
> is an Adaptec 2940 vintage 1994, all drives were 50 pin. Four months
> ago I added an IBM DCAS34330w 68 pin device. From that time till 3
> days ago may system was dead every morning. Seems updatedb and expire
> news would lock the bus up tight. I don't know for sure if it was your
> work or the Granite Digital terminator that did it but my system is
> now rock solid again. A virtual beer and a selection of gourmet
> bearded clams to you and Granite!
>
> Thanks Much!
> Mike
>
> Mike Nachlinger Apres Ski Club, Inc.
> 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org mnach@apres.org
