On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 02:14:26PM -0800, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:05:51 -0500
> From: Floody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Greetings.
>
> I am experiencing a lockup using the new BusLogic 2.0.15 driver present in the
> 2.0.36 kernel. 2.0.14 from 2.0.35 works like a champ, and has for many moons.
> My controller is the BT958UW.
>
> The box in question is a PII-266, 128M EDO. The only other cards in the box
> are a fairly generic SVGA PCI card and a DE500BA NIC (also PCI). At boot, the
> driver properly detects the host adapter, displays it's information, and then
> locks hard after "scsi : 1 host." No attached scsi device information is
> displayed. My BusLogic driver is compiled statically, rather than as a
> module.
>
> There is *very* little difference between the 2.0.14 and 2.0.15 versions of the
> BusLogic driver. I suggest you try using the 2.0.14 driver in kernel 2.0.36,
> and the 2.0.15 driver in 2.0.35 to see which combination causes the lossage. I
> suspect some other change in 2.0.36 is causing the problem.
>
> Leonard
Disregard my previous reply, I apparently forgot that a single test is not a
valid statistical sample. ;)
Apparently, the 2.0.36+2.0.14 combination successfully booting was a fluke, as
I was unable to boot it again after my first test.
I will continue to look for possible causes.
--
"I look around me .. and all I see are surfaces .. without depth."
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