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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Phil Brutsche <phil@tux.obix.com>
Cc: gibbs@scsiguy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19, 2.4.20pre7, problem with aic7xxx driver
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:56:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020920215637.224d20e8.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D8B7BA8.8010403@tux.obix.com>

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:48:56 -0500
Phil Brutsche <phil@tux.obix.com> wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > Hello Justin, hello all,
> > 
> > I just came across an interesting phenomenon regarding 2.4.19 / 2.4.20-pre7
> > and adaptec scsi. Scene is this:
> > 
> > board: Asus SP97-V with Pentium 200 (non-MMX) (I know it is old)
> > controllers tried: adaptec 29160, 29160N, 2940 U2W
> > kernel: 2.4.18-SuSE (distribution 8.0), 2.4.19, 2.4.20-pre7
> > 
> > From all possible configurations of the above the following work:
> > 
> > kernel 2.4.18-SuSE: with all controllers
> > kernel 2.4.19     : only with 2940 U2W
> > kernel 2.4.20-pre7: only with 2040 U2W

Uh, here is a typo, it should be "2940 U2W" of course ...

> The aic7xxx driver works like a champ here in 2.4.17 (vanilla and with 
> rmap-11c), vanilla 2.4.19, and early vanilla 2.5.x (last I used was 2.5.9).
> 
> This is a 29160 (the 64-bit dual-channel card, not the 19160 or 29160N) 
> controller on a MSI 694D-Pro motherboard - dual 1GHz PIIIs.

I know this.
I use it myself in quite a number of boards (all comparably new). The thing is:
why doesn't it work in an _old_ board like SP97-V, and _only_ regarding 2.4.19
/ 2.4.20-pre7 (I did not try all in between, but I dare a good guess ;-)

Regards,
Stephan


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-20 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-20  5:28 2.4.20pre7, aic7xxx-6.2.8: Panic: HOST_MSG_LOOP with invalid SCB 0 Ville Herva
2002-09-20 15:37 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-20 18:19   ` 2.4.19, 2.4.20pre7, problem with aic7xxx driver Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-09-20 19:48     ` Phil Brutsche
2002-09-20 19:56       ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
2002-09-23 15:28   ` 2.4.20pre7, aic7xxx-6.2.8: Panic: HOST_MSG_LOOP with invalid SCB 0 Marcelo Tosatti
2002-09-23 17:35     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-23 16:54       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-09-23  6:35         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-09-23 21:43           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-09-23  7:15             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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