Re: Kernel Panic (aha1542.c)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:57:34 +0000 (GMT)


> for problems (an old disk with bad blocks) I would like to look into this. I do
> however, not have the jumper-settings sheet anymore (lost between 1992 and now)
> so I am not really aware of the settings. So if someone would let me know I

Last time I needed it altavista found it on the adaptec web site.

> Any suggestions from any of you guys would probably be helpful, eg. "try this"
> or "don't do that". For a starter, I would like to know what all this about
> mailboxes is about, as it is all over the code in aha1542.c ?

Message passing between the CPU on the card and the host machine. You post
it a letter as it were, and eventually it posts you one back

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