Hi there
I will describe the machine in detail first.
It's a Gateway server - 7210
It's basically a dual cpu capable machine
it's based on the 440 GX + chipset
it only has 1 cpu in it currently a PIII 600
It has onboard everything but the main problem is the scsi
It is a Adaptec 7896 dual channel controller.
Anyway to the fun part. (or lack of)
any kernel I have tried so far from 2.0 to 2.2.16 with latest aic7xxx
driver either as a module or just compiled right in.
It basically locks up like this (this is another adaptor just replace the
wording) (I have typed it correct as it appears)
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adaptor> found at PCI 0/12/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded
That's it it's frozen at that point and won't go any further
I have had it working on ide disks and that worked fine.
The latest aic7xxx driver I tried was 5.1.31 from the person maintainig
the driver itself.
Jeffrey Borg
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