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Re: abort using AHA2940UW with x86 Linux RedHat 5.2 (kernel-2.0.36-pre)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Welbers)
Wed Nov 11 13:39:48 1998
From: Andreas Welbers <aw@ind.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:07:40 +0100 (MET)
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Robert Sander writes:
> On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Andrea Neville wrote:
>
> > >We have several Linux boxen here with the same hardware configuration, but
> > >on the one where we first decided to install RedHat 5.2, we get the ff.
> > >errors:
> > >
.....
>
> Me too. ;-(
>
> Robert Sander "Is it Friday yet?"
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We also have a problem with Redhat-5.2 and Kernel >= 2.0.36. The
reason seems to be the version of the aic7xxx driver. It seems that
version 5.0.19 is quite good but version 5.1.2 and upper crashes the
system.
If I use the new version of aic7xxx, I can boot the system up. But
then, if I try to make operations using the aic7xxx driver and the
harddisk, the kernel cashes with traps und cryptic error messages.
Trying to install the new Redhat-5.2 with aic7xxx version 5.1.2 (this
is the default version of the kernel 2.0.36 on the boot disk of
RH-5.2) the systems crashes while accessing the disk; sometimes it
happens while formatting the swap space and sometimes while formatting
harddisk partitions. If I use the check-option "mke2fs -c ...". This
happens immediately!!!
Then I tried using RH-5.1 and the new kernel packages from
RH-5.2. The same problem. If I start the driver with
"aic7xxx=extended,verbose"
and use "tar cpvzf usr.tgz usr/" the system crashes with the following
error message:
Whoops: unlock_buffer: b_count != 1 on async io.
It is possible to change the virtual terminal but I can't login. I can
type the login name (root) but if I type the password (xxx) I get
access for a fractional amount of time and then again there is the
login prompt!
My box has two Adaptec 2940UW controllers. One controller is a real
2940UW controller (bios version 1.32), this is where the harddrive is
connected, and the other is a onboard controller AIC-7880 on the ASUS
T2P4S mainboard (bios version 1.26).
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Andreas Welbers
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