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Re: Debian Rescue Floppy / Adaptec bug redux



Hi,

On  6 May, David Bristel wrote:
 > The problem isn't with the Adaptec, it's the Adaptec on certain motherboards.
 > I'd be happy to test new patches on the more problematic boards I've
 > experienced, I just don't have the time these days to develop the changes
 > myself.  I also think that perhaps it's time to experiment with the 2.2 kernels.
 > I know this makes for a larger image for the floppy, but it may solve all the
 > problems we have been seeing.

Nope.  The problem exists with 2.2 kernels as well.  I had to create 
Adaptec-only rescue disks for both 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels in order for
our hardware to boot properly (i.e w/o crashing everytime a SCSI probe
is done).

-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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