[4288] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: more DPT trouble
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Jul 4 11:59:58 1998
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 11:58:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Andrea Dell'Amico" <adellam@zia.ms.it>
cc: Damien Miller <dmiller@ilogic.com.au>,
Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980704112538.adellam@zia.ms.it>
On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Andrea Dell'Amico wrote:
> Did you try the eata/pci driver instead of the eata_dma? The former is
> actively developed while the author of the eata_dma driver has been too
> busy to update it in the last months.
I had, but had been unable to load it. I had tried loading eata.o after
loading and unloading eata_dma.o. Apparently, eata_dma leaves the DPT
card or the kernel in some state that makes the eata.o module fail. After
a reboot, eata.o loads fine, and I'm doing my raid array stress tests now
with the eata.o driver. So far, it's doing better than the eata_dma
driver did.
Also...I remember reading about BX chipset problems, but don't remember
what they were or when they were solved. When I tried getting RedHat 5.1
to install on the server the DPT card is supposed to be in (a PII-400 BX
chipset Tyan), Linux could not load any of the eata drivers, and I could
not get either Buslogic 948, 946, or NCR 810 cards to work. Is this
because the 2.0.34-0.6 kernel in RH 5.1 doesn't quite work on BX chipset
motherboards?
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