7890/aic7xxx 5.1.0pre5+3

[Greg Whalin]

OK, I just tried pre6 on two different systems (including the trouble
system with the RAID controller).  It worked on both with no problems on
bootup!  I am happy for the time being.

Greg

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Greg Whalin
gwhalin at numerix.com

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:

> Greg Whalin wrote:
> > 
> > Well, this patch solved my problem.  I had a CMD technologies RAID
> > controller that was not being found with pre5.  This patch seems to have
> > solved my problem.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > --------------------
> > Greg Whalin
> > gwhalin at numerix.com
> > 
> > On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Juergen Hammelmann wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Please see at
> > >
> > > ftp://calculix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/juergen/aic7xxx
> > >
> > > to get my newest patch, some people asked me...
> > > Also I put my bootdisk and a kernel image and modules to this site.
> > >
> > > :-) this system (calculix) runs on the pre5+3 patch.
> 
> %^)  OK, before we get *too* many different patches running around here,
> I've attempted to roll up the various fixes that have floated through here
> with the code I was working on as well and put out a pre6 patch.  People
> that had things that fixed various problems should check out the pre6 patch
> and make sure I didn't miss something that your particular setup needed. 
> However, be forewarned there were a few things that I had seen that I
> purposely didn't roll in, such as the code to read some of the adaptec BIOS
> settings from NVRAM in a Dallas Semiconductor combination RealTime
> Clock/CMOS/NVRAM chip.  Modifications such as those are non-portable and
> impossible to use properly.  They might work on one motherboard, but since
> every motherboard can use their NVRAM differently beyond certain
> allocations, the rest of it is guess work.  In order to be able to use
> something like that, we would first have to identify that a particular
> motherboard controller is the one we are using, and then have some sort of
> pre-defined mapping of NVRAM for that motherboard controller setup.....very
> ugly work to try and get right, and most mb makers wouldn't be nice enough
> to tell us where they store that stuff either so it would be guess work to a
> certain extent.
> 
> Anyway, check it out and get back with me if things are missing.
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Doug Ledford  <dledford at dialnet.net>
>   Opinions expressed are my own, but
>      they should be everybody's.
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