From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264056AbTDKJeD (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:34:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264074AbTDKJeD (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:34:03 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:13573 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264056AbTDKJeC (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:34:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:51:31 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, 76306.1226@compuserve.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7* claims all checked EISA io ranges Message-Id: <20030411105131.05bbcd8f.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <524390000.1049993090@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> References: <200304082124_MC3-1-3399-FBD0@compuserve.com> <1049886804.9901.19.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <194120000.1049909641@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20030410132055.1745749c.skraw@ithnet.com> <524390000.1049993090@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:44:50 -0600 "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > 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). > > The best way to get to a resolution on aic7xxx issues is to use the > drivers from here: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ > > And provide as much information about the problem as you can. In this > case, I'm at a loss for what a "zapping-black event" is. Thank you for pointing to the URL. OK, the error description was a bit flaky :-), I simply meant the box freezes and the screen turns black - no oops, no nothing. This occurs while reading back about 70 GB of data from an SDLT. _Writing_ this data (which is done just before verify-reading it) seems no problem. -- Regards, Stephan