hang on boot up time

[Gaston R. Cangiano]

Thanks Mads,

BTW, what the heck does AFAIK mean? :-)))

the idea of commenting out the init_module routines crossed my mind, but i
can't find the sources to the module, all there is for download at the site
are patches or pre-compiled versions.  Where is it???

G.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mads Bondo Dydensborg [mailto:madsdyd at challenge.dk]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 6:49 AM
> To: Gaston R. Cangiano
> Cc: aic7xxx at FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: hang on boot up time
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Gaston R. Cangiano wrote:
>
> > Hi there all,
> >
> > I am new to using this driver and i get a hang when trying to load the
> > module "aic7xxx", what  command line option would disable the
> scanning? i.e.
> > it is freezing on an external HD with no file systems...
>
> AFAIK, the scanning can not be disabled. I used to solve this, by
> modifying scsi_module.c to do nothing in init_module.
>
> This will stop the driver from beeing registered with the SCSI middle
> layer. Of course this means that you can not use it, but it may allow you
> to solve the problem with scanning (somehow).
>
> Mads
>
> --
> Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               madsdyd at challenge.dk
> Oh well, all operating systems crash constantly right? This is
> normal, right?
> It has to be, Microsoft couldn't be so popular if their OS was so
> bad, could
> they?
>   Yes they could, and they are. And if you fail to realize it,
> it's your own
> damn fault.
>                                - Ron Coscorrosa, in response to
> MS France FUD
>
>



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