aic7xxx-5.0.9 second test patch

[Steve Brueggeman]

Boots/Runs OK if I disable WIDE negotiation in the Adaptec BIOS settings. 

Boots/Runs OK with or without Sync Negotiation enabled in Adaptec BIOS settings.

>
>Do an experiment for me.  Before changing anything around, try disabling all
>synchronous and wide negotiation to the tape drive and see if it works.  If
>it does, then let me know what your CPU at home and at the office are as
>there may be some kind of CPU speed related timing bug lurking in here. 
>There may also be a generic issue where certain cards simply are broken in
>regard to REQINIT handling (kind of a partial latent defect type thing, like
>the CPU I once had that would run linux 24 hours a day 7 days a week without
>a problem, but the first time I tried to run 16 bit apps on it, it would
>crash presumeably because some of the 16 bit microcode had gotten fried when
>it overheated).


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