AIC7XXX for SMP kernel

[Vincent Cojot]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Doug Ledford wrote:

> No, of course not!  The aic7xxx driver and SMP kernels never have and never
> will work!!
> 
> (sometimes I honestly wonder just how many SMP systems there are out there
> running the aic7xxx driver right now....)
> 
> Ho, hum....use the option noapic when booting the kernel and see if that
> doesn't solve your problem....and you might want to try searching email
> archives next time before emailing everyone under the sun...

Sarcastic humour, Doug? heh? :) :)

	Actually, RH6.1 fixed a lot of things for me. I own a PC Server
704 (2*PPro, 512mb) with two onboard 2940UW and one 3940AUW. Moreover, I
have two SCA backplanes inside the machine (SCSI ID6 on both 2940 chains)
and I kept getting timeouts and resets with the later 2.0.3x (even with
5.1.x patches). I had to use "no_reset" aic7xxx option to get the
machine to boot (even for a non-SMP kernel) and it worked fine once
booted.

	RH6.1 made a lot of difference for me, it installed flawlessy,
recognized all 4 scsi chains without "no_reset" , allowed me to install
from /dev/scd1 (the quickest cdrom of the two I have) instead of
/dev/scd0. I'm not getting resets or timeouts anymore.. :) Great stuff,
thanks.. :)

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