"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: > I tried 2.0.31, but found that it broke my SCSI system - it would no longer > acknowledge the existence of tapedrive or scanner. This was apparent at > boot-time, when they no longer appeared on the SCSI device list. I had to > go back to 2.0.30, where it works fine. > > I am using an Adaptec 2940UW with the aic7xxx SCSI kernel code. Here's an excerpt from a posting to linux-kernel: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>: > >I currently seem to have a problem when I upgraded > >from 2.0.30 to 2.0.31. I have a Adaptec 2930 (SCSI-2) > >Card that uses the aic7xxx driver, under 2.0.30 when > >it boots up is Resets the SCSI Bus and then it detects > >my Tape Drive just fine, but for some reason when up grade > >to the kernel source of 2.0.31 and try to boot up during > >the boot up it locks up after it tries to start to load > >the SCSI Driver! > > In the Adaptec EZ-SCSI BIOS make sure that wide negotiation is turned off on > this device, and if it won't do synchronous either, then turn that off as > well. The negotiation code was changed, not entirely for the better. There > are patches in 2.0.32-pre-4 that should help with this problem as well. You can also get the fix from: http://linux.dialnet.net/LMP/buglist.html This is the new Linux Maintenance Project, which is the project formed to put together new stable kernel releases (Linus wants to concentrate on 2.2). Cheers, - Jim
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