driver 5.0.14 randomly freeze with 2.0.33

[Doug Ledford]

Robert Pouliot wrote:
> 
> I sometimes (about once every 2 or 3 days) a hard lockup since I use
> 5.0.14 driver, they happen mostly in X when using netscape...
> Maybe a deadlock somewhere... Even when it locked in text mode, everything
> was frozen, no message...
> 
> The card is a 2940UW reported has: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 1)
> The system wasn't freezing when I had a BusLogic (alas it died, hardware
> failure and had to replace it fast...)
> I have a AMD K6-200 with 64 megs RAM if it make some difference...

There aren't any lockup conditions I'm aware of in the 5.0.14 driver, but
there are lockup conditions with Netscape and X (actually, in the TCP/IP
subsystem) of 2.0.33.  I would recommend trying the 2.0.34pre15 patch and
the aic7xxx-5.0.15 patch and see if the problems go away.  You can get the
2.0.34pre15 patch from ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/alan/2.0.34pre or from
http://linux.dialnet.net/LMP and you can get the 5.0.15 aic7xxx patch
specifically for 2.0.34pre15 from
ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/2.0.34pre15


-- 

 Doug Ledford  <dledford at dialnet.net>
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