Hi Justin,

First thanks for the responces and thanks for the work on the SCSI
driver we use the Adaptec drivers a lot in our work.

I have compiled and installed the AIC79XX 1.3.4 driver from your
web site to run with the stock Redhat kernel version 2.4.18-24.7.xsmp.
I have just installed the SCSI module aic79xx.o

This has improved things a lot. The drive no longer locks up. However,
I now get SCSI error messages in /var/log/messages every so often, 
probably matching the same period as when the drive used to lock up.
I assume that, whatever the fault, the driver is now handling the error 
better.

1. Would it be possible for you to look at the error message to see
what it is related to.
2. Would it be possible to determine what may have locked up the drive
with the previous SCSI driver. I could feed this back to Seagate.

I enclose a portion of /var/log/messages below.

Cheers

Terry


Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>Hi Justin,
>>
>>Thanks for the info.
>>We were using these drivers as:
>>
>>1. The 1.0.0 driver is as used in the Stock Redhat 7.3 release (updated
>>	to current updates).
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, providing updates to Redhat even in a timely manner has
> no impact on whether or not these udpates are incorporated into recent
> releases.
> 
> 
>>2. The 1.1.0 driver is on the Adaptec web site for Linux and is I 		 believe the one shipped on there CDROM for the on-board 7902
>>	controller.
> 
> 
> Getting website updates is a slow and painful process at Adaptec.
> I've been working on this for some time, but have not yet had any
> success.  That is why I distribute the most recent drivers from
> a location I can control.
> 
> 
>>We were not aware of a later driver.
>>For future reference, where should we go to find the latest drivers
>>for any device for the linux 2.4.x kernel ?
> 
> 
> That would depend on the device.  For Adaptec aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers,
> you can use the site I provided.
> 
> 
>>Do you know if the latest driver at
>>http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/RPM/aic79xx/ might fix
>>this problem ?
> 
> 
> I don't know enough about your problem to be able to say.  There have
> been lots of fixes to these drivers over their lifetime, so upgrading
> is a good first step.
> 
> --
> Justin
> 

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