From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:54:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:53:56 -0400 Received: from c007-h000.c007.snv.cp.net ([209.228.33.206]:18129 "HELO c007.snv.cp.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:53:45 -0400 X-Sent: 21 Sep 2001 22:53:56 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Derek Gladding Reply-To: derek_gladding@altavista.net To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+ Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:51:14 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] In-Reply-To: <3BABA9F4.3677E423@timesn.com> In-Reply-To: <3BABA9F4.3677E423@timesn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010921225353Z274864-760+15078@vger.kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 21 September 2001 01:58 pm, Ray Bryant wrote: > The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x (we've > tried > 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9). [snip] > These same machines worked fine with 2.2.18 from www.kernel.org and > 2.2.19 from RedHat. Any suggestions? > > Machine is an Intel L440GX+ 700 MHZ PIII 2GB RAM > Adapter is Adaptec AIX-7896 Bios level is v2.20.S1B1 > Disks are QUANTUM ATLS TY09TL > Machine bios is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.0 I had something similar on my dev box (2.4.[789] / Dual PIII-750 / Via / 1.5G / Adaptec 2940 / three striped IBM DCHS-09Y 9.1G) and found that compiling the aic7xxx driver with TCQ disabled got round the problem. A far from perfect solution, I know, but it may get you up and running and maybe provide some more clues as to what is happening. - Derek