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Re: aic7xxx !johnsonm!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Tue Oct 22 17:40:37 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:25:25 MDT."
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:37:24 -0400
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Todd Weible writes:
>Then it locks. Hard reboot required. If you pass this on the kernel
>development persons, let them know that I have compiled 2.0.18 and 2.0.23
>myself and both produce exactly this error (which is what I suspect you
>did michaeljohnson). The last kernel before 2.0.18 which I have tried is
>2.0.12 and it works. So for my particular Adaptec 3940W with in
>particular machine something went wrong between .12 and .18.
OK. I've heard since on the kernel list that 2.0.13 introduced the
problem; a new rev of the aic7xxx driver was included that killed
some working configurations and got some dead configurations working.
:-(
>For anyone else with this problem, I have created a boot disk in
>ftp.redhat.com/pub/incoming/kernels called
>3940W.img which uses kernel 2.0.0 instead of later ones. It works like a
>champ for me and should help others with this problem.
Thanks. I assume you replaced all the modules in the ramdisk with
ones compiled under 2.0.0, right? If people let you know about
success or failure of your disk, can you keep me appraised?
Thanks for your help tracking this down,
michaelkjohnson
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