Help tuning an Adaptec 7896.

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at narnia.plutotech.com
Sat Jun 26 15:31:39 PDT 1999


In article <37744475.75963DFC at redhat.com> you wrote:
>> Any ideas what is wrong ?
>> Any ideas how I can "over ride" the period of "43" ?
> 
> This means that we are interpreting the flags in the BIOS differently than the
> BIOS does.  Make sure you have tried the latest aic7xxx driver (5.1.17) and if
> it still does the same thing then forward me the output of the driver when the
> module is loaded with aic7xxx=dump_card or booting the linux kernel with the
> option aic7xxx=dump_card if you have the driver compiled into the kernel.  The
> patch for 2.2 and 2.0 kernels can be found at
> http://www.redhat.com/~dledford/aic7xxx.html

Just FYI, I had to change the 'new seeprom format' detection method in
the FreeBSD driver when I added support for the 3950.  I just assume
that all cards with product IDs > 7880 use the new format.

--
Justin


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