2.1.91 SMP and aic7xxx

[Robert HYATT]

two suggestions:

1.  replace the adaptec.  I'm now using a buslogic bt958.

2.  try 2.1.92, plus Ingo's patch sent to this list this morning
some time.

#2 will be cheaper...  (my buslogic cost me about 260 dollars
US).  

I personally don't have any confidence in the aic7xxx driver
based on many crashes, corrupted files/filesystems and so forth
before I became a buslogic fan.  I suspect it will get fixed just
like the Tulip problem before long...


Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences
hyatt at cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-2213                  115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station 
(205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Attila Karpati wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I don't know this is an aic7xxx or SMP problem.
> The kernel version 2.1.91 compiled with SMP support with the supplied aic 
> driver boots and works fine on a one-processor machine but stops while 
> scanning the SCSI bus on a dual PPRO machine.
> 
> On the dual system the BIOS assigns interrupt 11 to the card. After 
> initializing the IO-APIC the card has interrupt 17. There are no further 
> kernel messages after 'scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.'.
> 
> The dual machine has an onboard 7880 controller, the single processor machine 
> has an Adaptec 9440UW card with a 7881 controller.
> 
> Thanks in advance
>  Attil Karpati 
> 
> 


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