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Re: Buggy 4.0 && unhappy user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Oct 25 11:23:38 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:53:03 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:04:16 -0400
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Joseph Yang writes:
>What SCSI problems were they (just wondering since I'm having such problems)
>I know (think) there is a problem with the Advansys driver it always hangs
>my machine when it is loaded as a module - if not then, it will hang when
>I try to mount the CD-Writer which is attached to the Advansys SCSI. Since
>I'm not near my Linux machine I can't really give any further details. But
>will post later tonite about it.
>
>Has anyone on the list had similar problems with the Advansys driver? Using
>the module options posted earlier by Michael(??) did not fix the problem.
It's a bug in the midlevel SCSI code which only showed up in drivers for
SCSI adaptors we didn't have here to try... :-(
Read ftp://ftp.redhat.com/johnsonm/README and for instructions. You need
the bootadvansys.img.gz boot image, but without reading the README it
won't help you any.
The information there is slotted for the next errata update.
michaelkjohnson
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