Re: aic7xxx in 2.2.10-ac8...

Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 05:13:15 -0400

Brian Macy wrote:
>
> The new driver times out repeatedly with my on-board (Tyan 1696DLUA)
> 7895 controller. It recognizes my narrow AIWA TD-8001 on Channel A id 6
> and then goes into infinite host 1 ch 0 SCSI bus resets. The tape drive
> is the only thing on Channel A... my 2 Wide Hard Drives are on Channel
> B. Unfortunately I don't have time at the moment to unplug the tape
> drive to see if it behaves exactly like it did before (it worked when I
> did so before).
>
> I did try forcing the tape drive negotiation to narrow without it
> helping anyway.
>
> Brian Macy

Update the BIOS on your motherboard. There is a bug in IRQ allocation for the
aic7895 on that motherboard with BIOS versions 1.16 and below.

-- 
  Doug Ledford   <dledford@redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.


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