From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:36:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:35:55 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:56580 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:35:47 -0400 Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec in 2.4.3 To: datageo@terra.com.br (Christoph Simon) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:37:17 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010410082250.0c207f75.datageo@terra.com.br> from "Christoph Simon" at Apr 10, 2001 08:22:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > board. This worked well, but when I ran into a hang with the 2.4.2 > loop device, testing a CD image, I decided to switch to 2.4.3. But > then I get strange error messages during boot, and the machine reacts > (kind of once a day) in a very strange way, like programs failing > which never fail. Might those errors have lead to a subtile kind of Simple way to test if its the new aic7xxx driver - build 2.4.3 with the old driver (say N to the new one and it'll offer you the old one) and repeat the experiment >