Benign glitch with 7895, RE: Red Hat 5.2 boot disk

[Braden N. McDaniel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: amlai at columbia.edu [mailto:amlai at columbia.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 1998 3:27 PM
> To: braden at endoframe.com
> Subject: RE: Red Hat 5.2 boot disk
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:
>
> > > > Has anyone created a modified Red Hat 5.2 boot disk with the latest
> > > > version of Doug's driver on it? If so, could you make it available?
> > >
> > > I will be making on available shortly.  There are two known
> problems with
> > > the default boot disk.  There are problems on the older 2742W
> cards and on
> > > the very latest 7880 Rev B chipsets.  Both have been fixed.
> There is one
> > > more fix I'm going to make and then release a new boot disk.
>
> Interesting. I had no problems with the default boot disk on my Tyan
> S1836DLUAN, which has the aic-7895 on it.

False alarm. The problem I experienced was apparently a fluke. It seems to
be working fine now.

> > Is this disk available yet? If so, where? I'm having no luck with the
> > shipping boot disk with my AIC-7895 (Intel DK440LX motherboard).

I'd still be somewhat interested if such a boot disk available, but
obviously nolonger have such a pressing need.

...

I have noticed an odd, and apparently benign, glitch. Whenever I boot up, I
get a message claiming I am using an illegal cable configuration. But I
don't, and things seem to work just fine.

Braden


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