On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 01:17:27AM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: > Critical bug 63946 raises a major concern: versions of the aic7xxx driver > between versions 5.1.26 and 5.1.28, inclusive, have a known problem which > causes failure on non-PCI systems. This driver is needed for SCSI > controllers based upon nearly all Adaptec chipsets, including AIC-7770 > (AHA-1742x, AHA-2742x, AHA-2842x) and AIC-7870 (AHA-2940). In other > words, it is probably the most commonly used of any SCSI driver in Linux. > > I have not checked, but it seems clear from the information in bug report > 63946 that the 5.1.28 driver is in the Debian 2.2.15 kernel, not the > 5.1.29 driver. If so, then the kernel will fail on systems which use an > Adaptec EISA or VLB SCSI controller, and I would recommend patching the > kernel to use the latest 5.1.29 driver. > > -- Mike I would completely agree with this. At least 3 people in my lug refused to use debian, because slink wouldn't work on their adaptec chipsets, if this happened again we might burn alot of people. -- Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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