Re: [PATCH] aic7* claims all checked EISA io ranges

[Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>]

On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:34:01 -0600
"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> wrote:

> > On Mer, 2003-04-09 at 02:21, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >> And your code goes for long periods of time without merging good fixes,
> >> like this one (from 2.4.20):
> > 
> > Which is one reason Justin's patches don't get merged. They are giant
> > changes which back out other clear corrections.
> 
> This tells me two things:
> 
> 1) You don't trust maintainers.  If a maintainer can't make large changes,
>    who can?
> 
> 2) When a maintainer makes a mistake (fails to integrate a good change,
>    or introduces a bug), the maintainers changes are simply dropped rather
>    then notify (either politely or not I don't much care) the maintainer
>    of his/her mistake.
> 
> Neither of the above applied to integration of the aic79xx driver into
> the 2.4.X tree, but it still took something like 8 months.
> 
> There must be a better way.

As I am probably one of the victims of these differing opinions, can anyone
tell me where to get a really-known-to-work aic-driver for 2.4? I am
experiencing zapping-black events while reading from a SDLT drive (writing to
it does fine).

Short hardware story:
02:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)
02:03.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: IC35L073UWDY10-0 Rev: S21E
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
  Vendor: QUANTUM  Model: SDLT320          Rev: 3838
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Any hints welcome

Regards,
Stephan