> > Additional information. This crash only happens if the machine is idle!
> > I booted it this morning and it is dead again. It uses the aic7xxx.c
> > driver and the NE2* ethernet card... Nothing else.
>
> Have you tried any of the AIC7XXX experimental patches?
> ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux
> Daniel Eischen is doing a wonderful job.
>
Nope. The current driver seems to work fine unless there is a SCSI
Bus error at which time all bets are off. Since I don't have any
external devices on this machine, I don't get any SCSI Bus errors.
> The latest patch (Apr16) is supposed to be a big change - well I can't
> get it to compile yet :-( but the pervious Feb12 patch works great.
> The current shipping kernel code has a pretty bad kernel stack overflow
> problem (thanks to the wonderous optimization techniques of GCC) that
> are avoided by the patches. I'm sure there are other goodies tucked
> into the patches too.
>
> Also, tune in to:
> aic7xxx@freebsd.org (subscribe by mailing majordomo@freebsd.org)
> where all the development banter happens.
Thanks for the info, I will check this out.
> It really is a shame Adaptec won't cooperate with Linux developers.
> My last mail to Robin Mizell <rmizell@corp.adaptec.com>, Manager of
> the "Adaptec Compatibility Advantage Program" (ACAP), still hasn't
> been answered. Once I wrote the word "Linux", I got an earfull of
> silence :-( Robin orginally wrote _me_ to handle my complaints
> that I addressed to a support rep.
>
Look, they ship 2,000 boards per week to Windows and Win-NT users
who are trying to make their machines usable. Linux is well below
the noise floor. You need to find an advocate at Adaptec. Look at
the excellent work done on the BusLogic board. This was all possible
because there are advocates at BusLogic.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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