5.0.x much more broken than 4.0.x?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Monday 13 July 1998, at 22 h 15, the keyboard of Vincent Cojot 
<coyote at step.polymtl.ca> wrote:


> 	It's really quite simple: The machine worked rock solid with both
> a 3940 and a 2940UW with 8 devices under 2.0.x (up and including to
> 2.0.33). The 3940 is replaced to a 3940AUW, forcing an upgrade to
> 2.0.34(with 5.0.19 patch) and kaboom: Only hard-drives are detected: 

This is a very common bug with the Adaptec driver of Linux kernel 2.0.34. (I 
experience it on the machine from which I write.)

Two workarounds:

- keep kernel 2.0.34 but copy all the aic7xxx* from 2.0.33. It works for me.
- try driver 5.1, currently beta. (I didn't try it yet.)




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