AIC7xxx problem on Intel C440GX+ motherboard

[danci at agenda.si]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> > That's why I installed RH AS2.1 on an IDE disk with no SCSI support. I
> > downloaded the new aic7xxx driver from
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/.
> >
> > Unfortunately, even this driver doesn't work. Here is what I get in
> > /var/log/messages:
>
> Changing the driver will never resolve this issue.  The problem is that
> AS2.1 is not properly routing interrupts to the SCSI controller.  Without
> properly working interrupts, the driver will always report timeouts.

There is a src.rpm for an updated kernel (2.4.9-e27) and I've recompiled
it while also turning the UP APIC option on.

Is this THE solution?

 Thanks, D.