Re: 2.6.6 Kernel + Adaptec aic7890/91 = Kernel panic

[Ralph Bergmann <ralph@dasralph.de>]

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

>>Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>
>>>...  Can you provide the output of
>>>"lspci -vv -n" which will indicate the PCI ID information of your
>>>controller?
>>
>>
>>yes of course
>>
>>0000:02:01.0 Class 0100: 9005:0010
>>         Subsystem: 9005:a180
> 
> 
> Hmm.  Those IDs should be supported in the driver.  Can you add
> printk statements in aic7xxx_osm_pci.c just before each location
> where the driver returns "-ENODEV".  This should help narrow down
> why the driver is refusing to attach to the controller.  If I
> had to guess, I would say that pci_enable_device() is failing for
> some strange reason.
> 
> --
> Justin
> 

First of all I have to excuse, because you have to wait so long for my 
answer. But I've got good news: the problem is partially fixed. I put 
the scsi-adapter in another pci-slot (now a 32bit one in contradiction 
to the 64bit one I used before), and now it's working. But I've got some 
questions concerning this:

1. should it have worked, no matter, which kind of pci-slot I use? When 
i used the 2.4 kernel, there were no error-messages, but when i switched 
to 2.6 kernel, I run into trouble as you know... So is it a 
kernel-problem or a hardware-thing?

2. And if you want to have the specific output nevertheless,  I would 
prefer, that you send me the special adjusted file I have to use, 
because I have no idea about kernel-programming at all...

Ralph