Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-05-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Todd M. Roy wrote: > I tried 2.4.4 with the old aic7 driver and it worked fine. That may be true, and it may help the deployment of 2.4.4 on that particular machine, but the kernel needs the bugfix anyways, and reporting the bug is the least I can do. If I'm after "old

Re: Success, aic7xxx 6.1.13 fixes boot problems in 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8 2.4.4 (was: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda)

2001-05-03 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Thanks a lot. (Might it be a good idea to ask Linus and Alan to update the >driver they ship in 2.4.5-pre or 2.4.4-ac, respectively?) Alan already has integrated 6.1.11 into his kernels. 6.1.13 corects an issue with cdrecord and improves read performance on U160 cards, so I'll ping Alan about s

Success, aic7xxx 6.1.13 fixes boot problems in 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8 2.4.4 (was: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda)

2001-05-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Tue, 01 May 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Version 6.1.13 of my aic7xxx driver is now up. I've included > patches to 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac2. If this version still causes > problems for you, please boot with "aic7xxx=verbose" and send > me any diagnostic output the driver prints. I'll try to co

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-05-01 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>Since the official aic7xxx site doesn't carry a patch against 2.4.4 yet >(just 2.4.3) which has cosmetic issues when being patched, I made a >patch against 2.4.4: I took the 2.4.3-aic7xxx-6.1.12 patch, applied to >2.4.4, bumped the version to read -ma1 in EXTRAVERSION, and made a new >patch again

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-05-01 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I guess we'll just have to wait for Justin to come out with the real patch... It's out. -- Justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please rea

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-30 Thread Cliff Albert
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:36:53AM -0400, Todd M. Roy wrote: > I tried 2.4.4 with the old aic7 driver and it worked fine. > > I have no control over that stupid, stupid mime-sweeper message. > Thats our anal-retentive network administrators work 2.4.4 with old aic7xxx still crashes my

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-30 Thread Todd M. Roy
Matthias, I tried 2.4.4 with the old aic7 driver and it worked fine. I have no control over that stupid, stupid mime-sweeper message. Thats our anal-retentive network administrators work -- todd -- -- .~. Todd Roy, Senior Database Administrator .~. /V\ Holstein Associatio

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-30 Thread Todd M. Roy
Matthias, I tried pretty much the same thing, and I also tried your patch. Unhappily when I access my zip drive using the aic7xxx driver my system becomes pretty much unresposive, just short of locking up completely. ie at least the emergency alt-sysrq keys still work. I guess we'll just have t

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > Command found on device queue > > aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 > > I have seen blaming for this error to aic7xxx new driver prior to version > 6.1.11. It was included in the 2.4.3-ac series, but its has not got into > main 2.4.4 (there

RE: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Steve 'Denali' McKnelly
.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda At 12:17 PM 4/29/01, Steve 'Denali' McKnelly wrote: >Howdy J.A., > > Let me ask a possibly stupid question... How do you tell >what version of the Gibbs Adaptec driver you're using? Did I >misunderstand you when yo

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Steve 'Denali' McKnelly wrote: > Let me ask a possibly stupid question... How do you tell > what version of the Gibbs Adaptec driver you're using? Did I > misunderstand you when you said the 2.4.4 kernel is using 6.1.5? > Also, did I understand you to say the 6.1.12 ve

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.29 Steve 'Denali' McKnelly wrote: > Howdy J.A., > > Let me ask a possibly stupid question... How do you tell > what version of the Gibbs Adaptec driver you're using? Did I You can look at the kernel boot messages for a line like: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER

RE: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread David Relson
At 12:17 PM 4/29/01, Steve 'Denali' McKnelly wrote: >Howdy J.A., > > Let me ask a possibly stupid question... How do you tell >what version of the Gibbs Adaptec driver you're using? Did I >misunderstand you when you said the 2.4.4 kernel is using 6.1.5? >Also, did I understand you to say

RE: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Steve 'Denali' McKnelly
oblem? Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: J . A . Magallon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 5:26 AM To: Steve 'Denali' McKnelly Cc: Matthias Andree; Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, poptix wrote: > Howdy, > > I've got an "Adaptec AHA-2940UW Pro Ultra SCSI host adapter" using > the aic7xxx driver (the new one, not the old one), and have had no > problems, I have a zip drive on ID5, and a 12X Smart & Friendly CD-RW on > ID6, haven't had any problems

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Royans Tharakan wrote: > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > aacraid raid driver version, Apr 28 2001 > percraid device detected > Device mapped to virtual address 0xf8806000 > percraid:0 device initialization successful > percraid:0 AacHba_ClassDriverInit complete > scsi0

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.29 Steve 'Denali' McKnelly wrote: > Command found on device queue > aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 > I have seen blaming for this error to aic7xxx new driver prior to version 6.1.11. It was included in the 2.4.3-ac series, but its has not got into main 2.4.4 (there is still 6.1.5

RE: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-29 Thread Steve 'Denali' McKnelly
, April 28, 2001 1:22 PM To: Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda Hi, I have several machines here, with either onboard aic7880 or with AHA2940 (I don't recall) sitting on the PCI bus, which share the same problem: they fail to detect the

RE: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-28 Thread Royans Tharakan
Kernel mailing list Subject: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda Hi, I have several machines here, with either onboard aic7880 or with AHA2940 (I don't recall) sitting on the PCI bus, which share the same problem: they fail to detect the first disk (Id #0). The inform

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-28 Thread poptix
Howdy, I've got an "Adaptec AHA-2940UW Pro Ultra SCSI host adapter" using the aic7xxx driver (the new one, not the old one), and have had no problems, I have a zip drive on ID5, and a 12X Smart & Friendly CD-RW on ID6, haven't had any problems on 2.4.3-ac14, or 2.4.4, just an FYI.

Re: 2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-28 Thread Cliff Albert
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:22:25PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > These have further devices (CD writer, CD-ROM drive), and these machines > are 100% in 2.2.19. With 2.4.3 and 2.4.4-pre8, I get this problem > (pencil & paper copy for Machine #2, DO NOT "grep"): > > AIC 7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HB

2.4.3 2.4.4pre8: aic7xxx showstopper bug fails to detect sda

2001-04-28 Thread Matthias Andree
Hi, I have several machines here, with either onboard aic7880 or with AHA2940 (I don't recall) sitting on the PCI bus, which share the same problem: they fail to detect the first disk (Id #0). The information below is from lspci and /proc/scsi/scsi of Linux 2.2.19, in that order, all Kernels have