Problem with Adaptec 2842

[Braden N. McDaniel]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Mike Isely wrote:

> 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.

Thanks a lot for helping to confirm the problem here. I dunno if it means
anything or not, but I notice that the 6.2 driver disk has a file on it
called "rhdd-6.1".

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Braden N. McDaniel                              e-mail: braden at endoframe.com
<http://www.endoframe.com>                      Jabber: braden at jabber.com



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