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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 21:56:37 +0200
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Phil Brutsche <phil@tux.obix.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19, 2.4.20pre7, problem with aic7xxx driver
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:48:56 -0500
Phil Brutsche <phil@tux.obix.com> wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > Hello Justin, hello all,
> > 
> > I just came across an interesting phenomenon regarding 2.4.19 / 2.4.20-pre7
> > and adaptec scsi. Scene is this:
> > 
> > board: Asus SP97-V with Pentium 200 (non-MMX) (I know it is old)
> > controllers tried: adaptec 29160, 29160N, 2940 U2W
> > kernel: 2.4.18-SuSE (distribution 8.0), 2.4.19, 2.4.20-pre7
> > 
> > From all possible configurations of the above the following work:
> > 
> > kernel 2.4.18-SuSE: with all controllers
> > kernel 2.4.19     : only with 2940 U2W
> > kernel 2.4.20-pre7: only with 2040 U2W

Uh, here is a typo, it should be "2940 U2W" of course ...

> The aic7xxx driver works like a champ here in 2.4.17 (vanilla and with 
> rmap-11c), vanilla 2.4.19, and early vanilla 2.5.x (last I used was 2.5.9).
> 
> This is a 29160 (the 64-bit dual-channel card, not the 19160 or 29160N) 
> controller on a MSI 694D-Pro motherboard - dual 1GHz PIIIs.

I know this.
I use it myself in quite a number of boards (all comparably new). The thing is:
why doesn't it work in an _old_ board like SP97-V, and _only_ regarding 2.4.19
/ 2.4.20-pre7 (I did not try all in between, but I dare a good guess ;-)

Regards,
Stephan

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