Re: pre-2.1.0-#4 won't boot for me

george h byrkit (ghbyrkit@cris.com)
Mon, 30 Sep 1996 07:22:16 -0400

I, too have the same problem with my AHA-2940UW PCI. Won't boot. From
pre #1 on. I'll try anything and make any reasonable patch UNLESS
someone knows that pre #5 is almost here (like this week...)

Regards,
George Byrkit
An old kernel hacker new to Linux...

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Daniel Linder wrote:
>
> Michael Nelson <nelson@seahunt.imat.com> wrote:
> > I get the same result with 2.1.0 #4... it loads the kernel up to the
> point where
> > it has just finished initializing my first scsi drive, then hangs solidly
> at
> > this line:
> >
> > aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done.
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 3.4/3.2/3.1
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
> > scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15.
>
> I too have this problem. I am running a Gateway 2000 P5-90 (overclocked to
> 100MHz), Adaptec 2940 controller, 1.1GB SCSI drive (maker unknown right
> now). This exact same kernel config file works fine using Linux 2.0.21
> kernel.
>
> Dan
> P.S. Linus: thanks for the wonderful kernel for us to run our applications
> on! :-)
>
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