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Subject: Re: Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe
To: gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:03:05 +0100 (BST)
Cc: wakko@animx.eu.org (Wakko Warner), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> >So, what about on an alpha system.  I've asked a few times what I could do,
> >but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.
> 
> From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears
> that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha.
> The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug
> it.

This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with
2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run
Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

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