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by **Konstantinos Agour** » Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:08:56

Hi,

I just recently tried to go from 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 on a machine with an
Adaptec 7896 (I am pretty sure that was the number it is a dual channel
scsi-adapter).

However when booting from it (rootdisk is sda) it just stayed it a timeout
and reset loop. Booting 2.2.16 again I had no problems. Is this a known
issue?

Konstantin
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by **Markus Kossman** » Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:35:54

> Hi,

> I just recently tried to go from 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 on a machine with an
> Adaptec 7896 (I am pretty sure that was the number it is a dual channel
> scsi-adapter).

> However when booting from it (rootdisk is sda) it just stayed it a timeout
> and reset loop. Booting 2.2.16 again I had no problems. Is this a known
> issue?

Yes. Try the new "Gibbs" driver instead. It's in 2.4.3pre3 or you can
find patches at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

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Markus Kossmann

by **Konstantinos Agour** » Tue, 13 Mar 2001 05:38:50

>> Hi,

>> and reset loop. Booting 2.2.16 again I had no problems. Is this a known
>> issue?
>Yes. Try the new "Gibbs" driver instead. It's in 2.4.3pre3 or you can
>find patches at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

If it will be in 2.4.3 I think I can wait \:)
Will there be an additional driver for these Controler, the existing one patched
or the existing one replaced?

Konstantin
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Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
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by **Markus Kossman** » Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:15:17

> >> Hi,

> >> and reset loop. Booting 2.2.16 again I had no problems. Is this a known
> >> issue?

> >Yes. Try the new "Gibbs" driver instead. It's in 2.4.3pre3 or you can
> >find patches at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/
> If it will be in 2.4.3 I think I can wait \:)
> Will there be an additional driver for these Controler, the existing one patched
> or the existing one replaced?

The new driver will be named aic7xxx (an so replacing the old driver, if
you don't change configuration) and the old driver will become
aic7xxx_old

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Markus Kossmann

by **d..** » Sat, 17 Mar 2001 07:34:55

Hi,
I am having a similar problem with a Adaptec 7899 controller. Under 2.4.2 the
kernel does not seem to detect the SCSI 7899 controller, which is in the
kernel,. Hence it can not mount the root drive.

Nither 2.4.0 nor 2.4.1 have this problem.

Anyone have any ideas,
Dave.

> > Hi,

> > I just recently tried to go from 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 on a machine with an
> > Adaptec 7896 (I am pretty sure that was the number it is a dual channel
> > scsi-adapter).

> > However when booting from it (rootdisk is sda) it just stayed it a timeout
> > and reset loop. Booting 2.2.16 again I had no problems. Is this a known
> > issue?

> Yes. Try the new "Gibbs" driver instead. It's in 2.4.3pre3 or you can
> find patches at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

> --
> Markus Kossmann

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