Steve Price wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. wrote:
>
> #
> # AIC 7890 is also supported in Redhat 5.2.
>
> It may work for some, but it doesn't work for everybody. I
> have no doubt the next RedHat disk will work for most if not
> all the boxes with 7890s, but I guarantee you that the box I
> worked on all weekend (40 out of 48 hours) had no chance of
> ever booting until some kind net soul gave me a Slackware
> boot disk he cooked up just for the occasion. You must have
> at least version 5.1.6 of the aic7xxx driver to work on a
> Dell PowerEdge 6300/400 and the 2.0.36 kernel only has version
> 5.1.2. Don't believe me? I have the scars to prove it. :)
Actually, the updated Red Hat Linux 5.2 boot disk on Red Hat's ftp
server in the updates/images area has the 5.1.7 driver in it so :P
I can't remember the exact version where I added the no_probe option,
but the 6300 needs that option to boot properly. I could have swore it
was already in the 5.1.2 version of the driver. So, unless something
else was wrong, the stock boot disk should have been capable of working
just fine as long as you loaded the aic7xxx module with the option
aic7xxx=no_probe.
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