Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

[Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>]

> > >So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
> > >but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.
> > 
> > From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears
> > that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha.
> > The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug
> > it.
> 
> This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with
> 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run
> Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Ok, i tried 2.2.19 with only justin's driver.  everything works.  The tagged
queue is the default, 253, when doing:
for x in b c d;do cp zero sd$x&;done
it works.  2.2.17 stock would give me errors before the end of the write and
just hang.  2.4.x with and without justin's driver would also do the same.

I used 2.2.19 with justin's latest (as of like 3 days ago) driver.  I just
now had time to try it.

I'll give 2.4.1 another try with justin's latest driver (time permitting)

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