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

Luben Tuikov
2004-08-04T21:41:53Z

Taken off linux-scsi.

Ralph Bergmann wrote:
> 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
>

--
Luben