Re: [?] 2.0.35 doesn't boot
"Steffen R . Mueller" <Steffen.Mueller@xlink.net> writes:
[Don't have any info for Dirk, who has a different problem than the
following]
| You're using IDE hardware while mine is all SCSI using an Adaptec 2940UW.
| When booting the kernel gets loaded and then fails on initializing the SCSI
| devices (timeouts).
|
| This happened with kernel 2.0.35 while 2.0.34 and below work perfectly. Same
| with the "bleeding edge" 2.1.xx (also timeouts) which I don't use on the
| production machines.
|
| There must be a difference.
|
| Any help is greatly appreciated !
At the end of this email I've included a post that was made to the
kernel mailing list regarding the 2940Ux problems. I'm still at 2.0.34
so I haven't tried it but it may help others.
Gary
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:
> Patrick D. Wildi wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
> >
> > > Just thought I'd let people know that the 2940 Ultra-Wide with the
> > > "1.24 Dell05" BIOS does work. Still can't get BIOS version 1.23 to work
> > > though.
> >
> > I have a 2940UW with 1.23 BIOS. Linux 2.0.35 (and 34) have no problem
> > finding my first HD (WD WDE2170-1807A1) ultra-wide) but only sporadically
> > finds my second HD (IBM DCAS 34330W, not ultra).
> >
> > I am having this problem since the later 5.0.x aic7xxx driver versions.
> > Haven't tried the 5.1.x prereleases. The old 4.x drivers (with 2.0.33
> > and earlier) worked fine.
> >
> > Playing around with the BIOS settings did not help much (just make
> > if more likely to find the HD), but did fix another problem I had
> > with 2.0.34 (SCSI CD was not recognized).
>
> I would strongly suggest that anyone having problems like these with the
> aic7xxx driver give the 5.1.0 pre releases a shot. The current pre release
> is pre3 and was just released this morning. The major advantage here is
> that this release should work quite well on all non-Ultra2 cards and on
> Ultra2 it should actually work now as long as you are using Ultra2 devices
> on the Ultra2 controller. There appears to be a problem still yet with
> narrow, single ended devices on Ultra2 controllers. If someone gets their
> Ultra2 controller to work with a narrow, single ended device, I would
> appreciate knowing.
>
> For those that don't know, the location is
> ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing for the pre-release patches, and
> for pre3 there are patches against 2.0.34, 2.0.35, 2.1.108, and 2.1.109.
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