Re: aic7xxx testers needed

Michael L. Galbraith (mikeg@weiden.de)
Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:49:14 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:

> The aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre13 driver has just been released. This driver is what
> I consider to be a final release candidate (except the debugging stuff is
> still enabled). I would ask as many people as possible to please try this
> version of the driver out and let me know if you have problems. If I don't
> here back from people that there are problems in this driver, then it will
> shortly become the official aic7xxx-5.1.0 driver for linux.

Talk about your basic great timing. It seems that on my machine, pounding
apache while doing glimpseindex will drive my 2940 insane (reset forever)
within a couple of hours.. pretty repeatable.

> The driver can be found at ftp.dialnet.net in
> /pub/linux/aic7xxx/5.1.0-pre-patches and there are patches against 2.1.123
> and 2.0.35. There are also boot disks for RedHat-5.1 and very shortly for
> SuSE 5.3 as well (I'm sure :)

I was on my way over there anyway, having lost a whole day of test results :)

-Mike

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