aic7xxx and tape drive problems

David M. Rector dave at clean.lanl.gov
Mon Sep 14 09:08:31 PDT 1998


Doug,

Thanks!

reseting the BIOS PCI configuration worked. Now I see my drives and
can run Xwindows on my graphics card. 

This is what I did;
1) apply patch to 2.0.35 kernel
2) switch cards around until there were no IRQ conflicts
3) reset BIOS PCI configuration

So far so good...

Dave Rector
*:^)

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:

> David M. Rector wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry,
> > 
> > Actually, after applying the patch, the aic7xxx driver
> > recognizes the tape drives, but suddenly my X11 driver
> > is broken and I cannot start X-windows.
> > 
> > I have a Matrox Millenium II 4 megs, PCI
> > (No IRQ conflicts as far as I can tell)
> 
> The aic7xxx card and the video card have overlapping MMAPIO ranges.  Go into
> the motherboard BIOS and tell it to reset the configuration data for your
> motherboard and see if that helps.
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Doug Ledford  <dledford at dialnet.net>
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>      they should be everybody's.
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