aic7xxx driver broken in linux/pmac 2.1.126

Doug Ledford dledford at redhat.com
Mon Nov 9 10:59:18 PST 1998


On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Patrik Jonsson wrote:

> Hi Doug,
> I've heard that you are the maintainer of the aic7xxx driver, so I hope you
> are the right man to send this to:
> 
> I just grabbed the latest linux/pmac sources from vger.rutgers.edu, and it
> seems the aic7xxx driver for my adaptec card is now broken. It runs fine in
> 2.1.121 that I'm currently using. Here's the response:
> 
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7860 UltraSCSI host adapter found at PCI 17/0
> <bla bla about termination>
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
> 
> <pauses a few seconds>
> 
> (scsi0) BRKADDRINT error (0x8)
>   Sequencer Ram Parity Error
> 
> and the boot hangs.
> 
> This is on a Power Computing PowerCenterPro 240.

The 5.1.4 driver (which has already been shipped off to Linus for
inclusion in 2.1.128) fixes this problem.

  Doug Ledford   <dledford at redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.


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