On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:21:13AM -0700, Gary Reed wrote: > This is on a Giga-Byte SIS648-based board with 2.4G P4 > CPU and 2 IDE drives/2 IDE CDs (one recordable, one > read only) and an old adaptec2940UW scsi card. > > I've had the usual boot problem (taking 20 minutes to > boot because of probing/reseting this scsi card) and > have read enough to know that the 'real' problem is > out-of-date bios on the card. I've tried to flash the > card bios (the "real" solution) but I must have one > that can't be updated as I've yet to be successful so > I'm stuck trying to make it work in current set up. > > Working with Debian's 2.2.20 kernel I can get the > aci7xxx=no_reset option to work and the machine boots > 'normally'. However, using 2.4.xx kernel I have not > been able to get the no_reset option to work and if I > remember/understand correctly it's because of changes > in how that driver is being loaded (between 2.2 and > 2.4 kernels)...as module instead of compiled into > kernel or something like that. > > Finally, the question:: Is there any way to get the > 2940 (with old bios) to boot 'normally' using 2.4 > kernel, specifically Debian/woody 3.0 r1 bf24 kernel?? There's a kernel config option in 2.4.20 at least, "Initial bus reset delay in milliseconds" which is set to 15000 by default. 1000 (ie. 1 second) works OK for me. It does mean recompiling your kernel though. YMMV as my aic7xxx card has no BIOS at all. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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