[4302] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SV: Upgraded to 2.1.107 ... almost succesfully - Follow up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederick F. Gleason)
Mon Jul 6 21:33:59 1998
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Frederick F. Gleason" <fredg@wava.com>
To: Mark Garlanger <garlangr@cyberramp.net>
cc: Brendan Miller <brmiller@wco.com>, Brian Schau <bsc@fleggaard.dk>,
"'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35A15D0F.2D1C30B1@cyberramp.net>
On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Mark Garlanger wrote:
> Brendan Miller wrote:
>
> > > Questions: Are there problems with the adaptec-driver in 2.1.107? Are
> > > there problems with the scsi-driver in 2.1.107?
> >
> > Yes. Actually, if you look through the posts to this list, Doug Ledford
> > said that, in fact, there are negotiation problems with *all* 5.0.xx versions
> > of the aic7xxx code. He's madly working on 5.1.0 right now to solve these
> > problems and to add Ultra2 support. Go back and read the thread
> > "Re: Trouble with (aic7xxx)5.0.19 driver on Linux" if you still have it,
> > or monitor ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/. Doug also said he
> > would post to linux-scsi and aic7xxx@freebsd.org when he had something
> > completed for us to try.
> >
> > But this scbptr SELTO stuff is known for a lot of people in 2.0.34 and
> > some in 2.1.10x. I have my Adaptec chain unplugged right now as I
> > anxiously away Doug's new driver. (All my critical stuff is on a BusLogic
> > BT-958.)
>
> Strange, for me 2.0.34 is working better than the 2.0.33 version.
2.0.34 seems to work fine, *if* you can get past the negotiation phase.
I've got two boxes that use the AIC7xxx driver, one of them SMP. The UP
box works just fine, as does the SMP box with a UP kernel. Compiling
2.0.34 for SMP generates all that SELTO boottime stuff however...
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