Re: aic7xxx in 2.2.10-ac8...
Brian Macy (bmacy@sunshinecomputing.com)
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:56:14 -0700
Doug Ledford wrote:
>
> 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.
I am using the absolute latest BIOS... 2.02 I think. It recognizes
Celerons. Which I removed the context of the "to see if it behaves
exactly like it did before"... that was the original RH 6.0 released
kernel. I used the aic7xxx up through 2.2.10-ac4 without problems.
Brian Macy
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