Re: Aic7x_x_x 6.2.36 && Aic79xx 1.3.10 Updates

[Louay Gammo <lgammo@cs.uwaterloo.ca>]

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

>>Hi,
>>
>>Has any one succeeded in running the latest  sources with RH9 (2.4.20-8)
>>kernel? Specifically, these are the sources sent out by Justin T. Gibbs.
>>
>>    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
>><http://people.FreeBSD.org/%7Egibbs/linux/SRC/>
>>In my case the driver loads fine, but it takes a while to initialize(?). I get errors like:
>>scsi0: Host status: Failed(0)
>>...
>>    
>>
>
>The latest source on my site is for aic7xxx 6.3.4 and aic79xx 2.0.4.
>Are you referring to these versions?  Have you tried the pre-built
>drivers for this kernel which are also on my site?
>
>--
>Justin
>  
>
I got this tarball from your website: aic79xx-linux-2.4-20031106-tar.gz. 
I untarred on top on my private 2.4.20-8 kernel tree. Should I have 
deleted the aic7xxx directory before I did this?

I did use an older version of the binary driver RPM. I faced versioning 
problems at the RPM install script level and (if I did a manual install 
of the binary in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8custom) the kernel versioning 
problem.  This driver works fine with standard RH kernels though.

I am hoping for a solution that will enable me to have a super-kernel 
that will run on multiple H/W configurations without hacking on init 
scripts. That's why I am interested in getting the driver build and 
install properly from sources.

Thanks,

L.

P.S. This info comes from the same machine when booted with stock RH 
2.4.20-8. /proc/scsi/0:

    Adaptec AIC79xx driver version: 1.3.10
    Adaptec AIC7902 Ultra320 SCSI adapter
    aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512 SCBs
    Allocated SCBs: 32, SG List Length: 102
    ...