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Re: Giving Up on aic7xxx: Recommend a SCSI Controller?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven N. Hirsch)
Tue May 30 13:03:08 2000
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net>
To: Jeff Hill <jhill@hronline.com>
Cc: "'linux_scsi'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jeff Hill wrote:
> After three months' effort, I have gotten nowhere in making the aic7xxx
> driver work properly with my Adaptec 2940U2W controller. No matter what,
> it hangs temporarily, and that's just not acceptable for a web server.
>
Jeff,
Do you have the mtrr registers set to something besides the default?
Sometimes video boards are shuffled around in the memory map, and
write-gathering doesn't work very well when it's over the AIC PCI
registers. Just a long shot, but it caused similar symptoms here until I
chased it down.
Steve
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