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Hi
<p>Looks to me like the adaptel driver has moved on quite a bit since your
Debian dist. From my experience there were bugs before but 5.1.17
seems to work for me (apart from on 3940s yawn).
<p>Look at Doug's site at <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html">http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html</A>
for the patches
<p>All the best
<p>Nick
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<br>Harald Grabow wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi.
<p>Although this would make this Mail redundant, I deeply hope this is
a
<br>known Problem.
<p>Since several Days I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on my System, with
<br>little success.
<br>Since I am NOT a Kernel Developer, I have found no way to get around
this
<br>myself.
<p>The Problem persists with all Kernel versions *HIGHER* 2.0.34 and the
AHA-
<br>2940 FAST-SCSI Adapter w/ NVRAM, BIOS Version 1.21 (the only one I
have)
<br>To me it looks like the almost-complete-rewrite made since then has
broken
<br>something in the Area of the Sequencer.
<p>While reading this i realize it sounds like a SCSI-Newbie-Insufficent-
<br>Termination-Or-Something-Problem, I may assure you it is *not*.
<p>- Driver downloads 10 more Sequencer Code Bytes than usual (409 on
<br> 2.0.34, 419 on higher versions)
<br>- Last SCSI Disc getting reflected 3 times.
<br>- On Startup, I get timeouts and bus resets, then the kernel sometimes
<br> actually boots; then occasional bus resets while working, making
work
<br> impossible; umount mostly halts the machine.
<p>Output of /proc/scsi/scsi for 2.0.34:
<p>Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
<br>Vendor: Model:
DFRSS2F Rev: 4B4B
Type: Direct-Access
<br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<br>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
<br>Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3701TA Rev: 3615 Type:
CD-ROM
<br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<br>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
<br>Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-R55S
Rev: 1.0J Type: CD-ROM
<br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<br>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
<br>Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34520N
Rev: 1281 Type: Direct-Access
<br>ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<p>Output of /proc/scsi/aic7xxx for 2.0.34:
<p>Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.0.19/3.2.4
<br>Compile Options: AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
<br>AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Adapter Support Enabled
<br>Check below to see which
<br>devices use tagged queueing
<br>AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Enabled (This is no longer
an option)
<br>AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled
<br>Adapter Configuration:
<br>SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
<br>Narrow Controller
<br>PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xffaef000
<br>Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
<br>IRQ: 11
<br>SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 1,
<br>Allocated 30, HW 16, Page 255
<br>Interrupts: 4033
<br>BIOS Control Word: 0x19b6
<br>Adapter Control Word: 0x0018
<br>Extended Translation: Enabled
<br>Disconnect Enable Flags: 0x00ff
<br>Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
<br>Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
<br>Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
<br>Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
<br>{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
<br>Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
<br>{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
<br>[Stats deleted]
<p>By no means I managed to get this information with the new Driver, but
<br>IMHO that shouldn't matter anyway.
<p>I tried 2.0.36 as well as 2.2.5 Kernel versions, both no go.
<p>I would be very pleased if this Problem could be dealt with, and would
<br>like to know if other people are experiencing the same trouble with
their
<br>2940, and how they got around it.
<p>Many thanks in advance! I am under pressure with this one, friends.
<p> ben
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