Re: 2.4.19, 2.4.20pre7, problem with aic7xxx driver

Phil Brutsche
2002-09-20T19:43:57Z

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

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.

Phil