problem using the aha2940 card with linux 2.0.35 (& 2.1.117)

[Jeroen Massar]

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote:

> Tani Hosokawa wrote:
> 
> > The Slackware 3.5 AHA2940 boot disk works with this card (it's using a
> > 2.0.34 kernel), however when I try to build a 2.0.35 kernel using the
> > AIC7xxx driver enabled, it doesn't work.  This is what /proc/pci reports
> > to me about the card:
> 
> I have similar problems with 2.0.35 and my 2940.  2.0.34 worked fine, but
> since my boot disk is SCSI, I can't boot with 2.0.35.
> 
> Also, with 2.1.117, I can boot (after a few errors are reported), but my
> SCSI CD-ROM is identified as a disk and hence is not usable.  Apparently
> when I boot 2.1.117, I mess up the SCSI bus (CD-ROM?) and when  I
> subsequently boot to NT, my CD-ROM is still FUBAR.  The only way to
> go between 2.1.117 and NT is via a shutdown/poweroff/poweron sequence!

My 2490u worked with 2.0.33 2.0.34 and 2.0.35 under slackware...
The Debian Hamm install hang when it came around to my 2940u... so I
installed it using the slackware kernel which I luckily still had :)
Then I recompiled the same kernel (which was on the Debian CD) and
it ran OK...

FYI I had the following drives attached:
 Plextor 12x
 Iomega Jaz 1Gb
 Iomega Zip 100
And I've also installed slackware with a 2.0.35 kernel on both a zip and
on a jaz.... simply set the correct ID and boot :)

I now use the 2940 in my dedicated linux machine running Debian...
And I've tested the P2B-DS board with two 266mhz P2's and the 7890 chipset
,which is my NT-X-Term, with Debian and the new pre7 drivers and they
run like a charm.... note this is _with_ SMP active :) And SMP under
linux works better than under NT as I've tested last weekend... on bizarre
where it runned for 48h's in one go without problems...

Jeroen Massar


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