Two SCSI controllers

Doug Ledford dledford at redhat.com
Tue Mar 7 12:45:06 PST 2000


"Kronenwetter, Paul" wrote:
> 
> When you select the option that you have a SCSI device, go through the
> virtual consoles (Alt-F[23456]) and see if there's anything "bad" in them.
> The problem I had with 6.1 is the driver hung (or did something bad) after
> displaying the AIC7xxx hosts just before it announced the disks/cdrom drive
> on them.  Doug has made several updates to the AIC7xxx driver specifically
> for that chipset, so it may indeed be a SCSI problem.

It's more likely a Red Hat 6.0 kernel problem.  In 6.0 we made the mistake of
turning on the PROBE_ALL_LUNS option of the driver and that kills some CD-ROM
drives that don't like having higher luns probed.  In 6.1 and later we turned
that option off.

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