Re: Success Report: aic7xxx-5.1.0pre10

Christof Damian (damian@mediaconsult.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:47:20 +0000

Matthew Hawkins wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, getlkl@terrorist.math.ntu.edu.tw wrote:
>
> > Kudos to Doug Ledford, who with an assist from the Adaptec
> > folks' have come up with the solution to my long headache!
>
> [snip]
>
> > I would like to thank Doug for his help [this is not the
> > first time that he'd helped me out with AIC7XXX problems]
> > and call for a round of cheers for him and for Adaptec's
> > seeing the light! [Hip, hip, hurray ....]
>
> Hip, hip, hooray! :-)

Hip, hip, hooray! :-)

> Not only did the scsi errors on one of my boxes disappear, it actually
> figured out ultrawide meant 40Mb/s and not 20 when I plugged in 5.1b7 a
> month or so back (to a 2.0 kernel).
> To anybody having aic7xxx related problems, I fully recommend joining in
> "beta testing" the v5.1 driver patches. They're excellent.

And it means that I can run linux on our Dell PowerEdge 2300 with onboard
7890.

damian

-- 
Christof Damian                
Technical Director
http://mediaconsult.com/


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