[482] in linux-scsi channel archive
aha284x and 1.3.x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Sun Aug 6 18:19:45 1995
From: jmorriso@bogomips.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 10:58:51 -0800 (PDT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508061219.IAA17580@vger.rutgers.edu> from "owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu" at Aug 6, 95 08:19:56 am
>
> From: "Brian A. Lantz" <brian@lantz.com>
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 18:22:58 +0100
> Subject: aha284x and 1.3.x
>
> Short version: They don't like one another.......
>
> Long version: Since the combining of the 274x, 284x, aic7xxx into
> aic7xxx.c, the 284x card (VLB) doesn't work. I haven't been able to get
> ANY of these kernels to get past the device probing. I just patched up to
> 1.3.15, and it is still broken :-(
I've used the aha2842 VLB in a 486 system with 1.3.X and it works
OK. It boots, it runs etc. I don't beat on that machine enough to
tell but it works fine. I have mysterious hangs with 1.3.8 if I play
with the AX.25 networking much. I don't want to upgrade past
1.3.8 because IP tunnelling is broken, but I digress.
The aha2940 gives me problems at times on an NFS server with SMC 16 bit
ethernet card. Hangs mysteriously with the SCSI bus light lit solid.
Frequent hangs with an Exabyte tape drive too.
I won't gripe about free software, so I'll ask: has anyone written
a commercial Linux driver for the Adaptec 27/28/294X SCSI controllers?
Can someone be pursuaded to fix the existing driver for a sum of money?
Is anyone even still working on the current driver? Whatever happened
to that guy who was going to make Linux use Novell server drivers?
It's frustrating having the best SCSI adapter on the market only it's
flakey
>
> No problems with 1.2.x, and running 1.2.13 fine, but would like to step
> back out into shaky waters ;-)
>
