Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 04 Aug 1997 13:55:48 +0200 | | From | Thomas Sailer <> | | Subject | 2.0.30 and the aic7xxx driver |
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I kept having troubles with the aic7xxx driver in stock 2.0.30. One machine kept getting frequent kernel stack corruption messages. I needn't tell you how stable the machine was.
Dan Eischen, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, the author of the aic7xxx driver, also recommends not to use stock 2.0.30 aic7xxx driver. He instead pointed me to his "July27" driver, available from ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux/July27/ (mail me if you want it in unified diff format)
I installed this driver release, and the problems are gone ever since, the machine is running stable again. It also cured random hard locks on a friend's machine (dg2fef@afthd.th-darmstadt.de) when serving with Samba. On two other machines (btw. all having an Adaptec 2940) it also performed very well.
I couldn't test exotic SCSI hardware, I only used it with SCSI disks (removable and fixed), CDROM drives and a CD Writer.
I'd like the July27 driver to be part of 2.0.31...
Tom
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