Re: 2.1.42

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 08:35:42 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Swen Thuemmler wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> 3.10, you will get into trouble, since there seems to be a bug with
> scatter-gather in this version. I had a lot of problems with BIOS 3.08,
> and had to patch the kernel (in drivers/scsi/aha1542.h, change
> #define AHA1542_SCATTER 16
> to
> #define AHA1542_SCATTER 8
> )
> Yesterday I made new EPROMS, and the problems are gone...

I will change that to see if it does anthing useful.

>
> Hmm, if it was the same controller, there must be another problem.
>
>
> Hmm, did you try the no-hlt option on booting (just wild guessing, don't
> know if this will help...)
>
> Greetings, Swen

Don't know about this. I grepped through the arch-dependent sources and
didn't find any such. However, I manually pretended that the CPU has
a halt bug by hard-coding.
>
>

Cheers,
Dick
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