Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.8 aic7xxx -- continuous bus resets | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:01:16 -0600 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> |
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> >I thought I'd look at the 2.4.8 kernel while I figure out what's >wrong with my 2.2.18 installation. The kernel loading gets stuck with >errors from the aic7xxx driver, which keeps timeing out querying the >bus looking for non-existant drives, and when it finaly tries to >query a drive that exists it claims to see bus errors. End result is >that Linux 2.4.8 never mounts any drives or finishes loading. > >The system is an IBM 704 with a built in adaptec aic-7880U >controller, with two drives on first scsi buss. > >2.2.18 has no problems with the adaptec controllers, but has other >issues, which seem to be timer related.
2.4.9 has the latest aic7xxx driver in it. Can you see if that changes things for you? If not, can you hook up a serial console to the machine and provide all of the messages from an aic7xxx=verbose boot?
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