From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To: A.J.Scott@casdn.neu.edu
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.8 aic7xxx -- continuous bus resets
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:01:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108170001.f7H01GI82362@aslan.scsiguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:04:25 EDT." <3B7A9D88.23945.BFC66BE@localhost>
>
>I thought I'd look at the 2.4.8 kernel while I figure out what's
>wrong with my 2.2.18 installation. The kernel loading gets stuck with
>errors from the aic7xxx driver, which keeps timeing out querying the
>bus looking for non-existant drives, and when it finaly tries to
>query a drive that exists it claims to see bus errors. End result is
>that Linux 2.4.8 never mounts any drives or finishes loading.
>
>The system is an IBM 704 with a built in adaptec aic-7880U
>controller, with two drives on first scsi buss.
>
>2.2.18 has no problems with the adaptec controllers, but has other
>issues, which seem to be timer related.
2.4.9 has the latest aic7xxx driver in it. Can you see if that changes
things for you? If not, can you hook up a serial console to the machine
and provide all of the messages from an aic7xxx=verbose boot?
Thanks,
Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-17 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-15 20:04 Andrew Scott
2001-08-17 0:01 ` Justin T. Gibbs [this message]
2001-08-17 1:32 ` David Ford
2001-09-20 15:54 ` 2.4.10pre10 aic7xxx problem Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-09-20 17:10 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-08-20 13:41 ` 2.4.8 aic7xxx -- continuous bus resets Andrew Scott
2001-08-20 20:32 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2001-08-20 15:12 ` Andrew Scott
2001-08-20 20:32 ` Justin T. Gibbs
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