Follow up (Dell 410)

[George Vicherek]

Just to give credit where it is due, I got the suggestion to disable the
Adaptec BIOS from Travis Oliphant about 2 weeks back. It was just that
my new ASUS P2B-LS MB was 1500 miles away so I could not test it.

George



Doug Ledford wrote:
> 
> Patrick W. Bryant wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Brilliant idea and ditto!
> >
> > I thought so too.  Thanks to George Vichere for suggesting it.
> >
> > > I'll then recut an SMP kernel and (shudder) try to embed aic7xxx inside
> > > instead of loading as a module.
> >
> > That's what I've got now (SMP and aic7xxx embedded) and it's working
> > really well -- fast boot, no probs with fdisk or mkfs, all the blocks
> > visible, etc.  I'm a very happy person right now.
> 
> The BIOS issue is something I hadn't tried here.  The 2940U2W card I have is
> running with the BIOS disabled, and always has because my boot devices are
> on a 7895 on my DK440LX motherboard.  But, if enabling the BIOS is enough to
> make it fail, then obviously it's most likely some small setup issue that
> has to be taken care of, I can get it found, and then these things will
> work.  Now, second issue.  For now anyway, if you modify the
> restart_sequencer() code to do aic_outb(p, FASTMODE | FAILDIS, SEQCTL);
> instead of just doing FASTMODE, then the cards will also work with narrow
> devices.  So, from what we have here, it looks like people should be able to
> get these things working with any devices as long as they:
> 
> A) Make the change to the restart_sequencer() function
> B) Disable the Adaptec BIOS on the Ultra2 controller.
> 
> This makes it hard to boot from these things, but I'll get a pre-6 out in
> the next day or two that hopefully will have the driver working with the
> BIOS enabled and already have the other change made until I can get the
> cause of that tracked down as well.
> 
> --
> 
>  Doug Ledford  <dledford at dialnet.net>
>   Opinions expressed are my own, but
>      they should be everybody's.
> 
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