"Steffen R . Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Don't have any info for Dirk, who has a different problem than the following] | You're using IDE hardware while mine is all SCSI using an Adaptec 2940UW. | When booting the kernel gets loaded and then fails on initializing the SCSI | devices (timeouts). | | This happened with kernel 2.0.35 while 2.0.34 and below work perfectly. Same | with the "bleeding edge" 2.1.xx (also timeouts) which I don't use on the | production machines. | | There must be a difference. | | Any help is greatly appreciated !
At the end of this email I've included a post that was made to the kernel mailing list regarding the 2940Ux problems. I'm still at 2.0.34 so I haven't tried it but it may help others. Gary On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Doug Ledford wrote: > Patrick D. Wildi wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Aaron D. Turner wrote: > > > > > Just thought I'd let people know that the 2940 Ultra-Wide with the > > > "1.24 Dell05" BIOS does work. Still can't get BIOS version 1.23 to work > > > though. > > > > I have a 2940UW with 1.23 BIOS. Linux 2.0.35 (and 34) have no problem > > finding my first HD (WD WDE2170-1807A1) ultra-wide) but only sporadically > > finds my second HD (IBM DCAS 34330W, not ultra). > > > > I am having this problem since the later 5.0.x aic7xxx driver versions. > > Haven't tried the 5.1.x prereleases. The old 4.x drivers (with 2.0.33 > > and earlier) worked fine. > > > > Playing around with the BIOS settings did not help much (just make > > if more likely to find the HD), but did fix another problem I had > > with 2.0.34 (SCSI CD was not recognized). > > I would strongly suggest that anyone having problems like these with the > aic7xxx driver give the 5.1.0 pre releases a shot. The current pre release > is pre3 and was just released this morning. The major advantage here is > that this release should work quite well on all non-Ultra2 cards and on > Ultra2 it should actually work now as long as you are using Ultra2 devices > on the Ultra2 controller. There appears to be a problem still yet with > narrow, single ended devices on Ultra2 controllers. If someone gets their > Ultra2 controller to work with a narrow, single ended device, I would > appreciate knowing. > > For those that don't know, the location is > ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing for the pre-release patches, and > for pre3 there are patches against 2.0.34, 2.0.35, 2.1.108, and 2.1.109. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null