> The whole system runs fine (> 50 days of uptime) under 2.0.36pre15,
> 2.0.36 and now 2.0.37ac8. I run with
> aic7xxx="verbose.tag_info:{{16.16.16.16.16.16.16}.{16.16.16.16.16.16.16}.{16.16.16.16.16.16.16}}"
>
> and all relevant drives report a tag queue of 16. This is with aic7xxx
> driver 5.1.7 from the 2.0.37ac8 kernel.
>
> When I decided to upgrade the kernel to 2.2.3-ac4, the whole machine
> broke down. The kernel never even completed scanning of the drive
> chains. The first disk (DCAS) was reported as "synchrous at 20
> MBit/sec", then a timeout occured, the scb was aborted and the loop
> repeated. Sometimes, the second drive (9 GB UW on the internal chain)
> was found at 40 MBit/sec but it never went as far as detecting the
> TEAC CDROM. The new driver identifies itself as "5.1.12".
>
If you are using SMP, try passing "noapic" to your kernel and see if that
helps.
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