Problem with Adaptec 2842

[Mike Isely]

Since nobody on the list posted anything to follow-up on this, I started
talking to Braden.  It caught my attention because he must be one of the
remaining 4 people in the world (or so it seems) who still has a
configuration using the old VL-bus 2842 controller.  A while back there
was some breakage related to the 2842 that was fixed in version 5.1.29 of
the driver.  The current version on Doug's page is 5.1.31, which I was
pretty sure worked for me.  But just to be certain, I tested it, building
a pristine 2.2.16 kernel patched up to this version of the driver.  It
worked fine.  Then I did what Braden did.  I created a Red Hat 6.2 boot
disk and used it in combination with Doug's driver update disk which is
supposed to be up-to-date.  I booted the exact same hardware with that
disk combination.  It failed precisely as Braden described below.  I'm not
a Red Hat user, but I followed the instructions as best as I saw (use
"linux dd" when booting, insert the update disk when prompted, select the
aic7xxx driver).

Doug:  Is it possible that the Red Hat driver update disk image on your
web page is not entirely up-to-date?  Unfortunately I never see aic7xxx
version info printed from the Red Hat installation attempt.

  -Mike


On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:

> I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux 6.2 on an old 486 with an Adaptec 2842
> board. The installation is dying when it tries to load the SCSI driver. I
> get:
> 
>   Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT.
>   In swapper task - not syncing
> 
> I have tried the driver update disk available from Doug Ledford's page,
> and it yields the same error message. However, the version of the driver
> that shipped with RH 5.2 works just fine. Any suggestions? (Other than
> give up and be happy with RH 5.2... :-)
> 
> -- 
> Braden N. McDaniel                              e-mail: braden at endoframe.com
> <http://www.endoframe.com>                      Jabber: braden at jabber.com
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