[4791] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: aic7xxx testers needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Thu Oct 1 18:23:03 1998
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:49:31 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
>
> Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> writes:
> > The aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre13 driver has just been released. This driver is what
> > I consider to be a final release candidate (except the debugging stuff is
> > still enabled). I would ask as many people as possible to please try this
> > version of the driver out and let me know if you have problems. If I don't
> > here back from people that there are problems in this driver, then it will
> > shortly become the official aic7xxx-5.1.0 driver for linux.
> >
> > The driver can be found at ftp.dialnet.net in
> > /pub/linux/aic7xxx/5.1.0-pre-patches and there are patches against 2.1.123
> > and 2.0.35. There are also boot disks for RedHat-5.1 and very shortly for
> > SuSE 5.3 as well (I'm sure :)
>
> Should this driver affect support for older 2842-VLB boards? Because
> I've got a stack of such boards, and I've tried using them now and
> again, but have consistently gotten OOPSes.
>
> It's not important enough to me to bother anyone with it, but if this
> driver *should* work, perhaps I can try and test this one.
Yes, it should work. And, since I no longer have one of those cards,
someone else does need to test it for me.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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