Bug 25934

Summary:	AIC-7xxx woes - Module parameters to use unclear
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	R P Herrold <herrold>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	henris
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Florence RC-1
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Last Closed:	2001-02-08 20:30:29 UTC	Type:	---
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Description R P Herrold 2001-02-04 00:42:55 UTC

Host is a HP  NetServer 4/66 LM -- it has an onboard Adaptec controller,
which under RH 7.0 installed and runs fine, and auto-detects the parameters
for the AIC-7xxx module.

( In viewing the running system, they are irq 11, iobase=0x9c00 )

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Made and verified the boot.img and drivers.img on floppy.

Started with the linux dd parameter

Answered the "Do you have a driver disk?" affirmatively

Tried NO parameters, irq=11, io=0x9c00, ipbase=0x9c00, and "irq=11 
io=0x9c00"

no joy ...
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This may be a variant of "Henri J. Schlereth" <henris> 's bug ...

Comment 1 R P Herrold 2001-02-04 02:23:36 UTC

This is a similar but not identical case to 25832

Comment 2 R P Herrold 2001-02-04 02:25:52 UTC

My architecture is EISA 486 -- no PCI bus present; SCSI HD's, SCSI CD-ROM

Comment 3 Glen Foster 2001-02-05 22:57:35 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-06 16:36:43 UTC

I don't think we've ever supported EISA - assigning to an engineer.

Comment 5 R P Herrold 2001-02-06 17:02:57 UTC

Don't get distracted by EISA -- no cards, except the NIC, are
in this host -- and it is plain old ISA generic NIC -- prob a SMC-
Ultra - I am away from the office --

The controller isembedded on the motherboard, as is the video ...

Comment 6 Erik Troan 2001-02-06 17:16:10 UTC

We're going to revert to the old aic driver, so this should get better.

Comment 7 Erik Troan 2001-02-08 20:30:24 UTC

We reverted this driver, so the problems should go away. Please confirm in the
next CD we send.

Comment 8 R P Herrold 2001-02-12 04:18:07 UTC

Cool ...
 
7. The new Adaptec supplied drivers segfaulted the kernel
during the aic7xxx module load ...
 
This moot for the present -- updated bug   25934 to reflect
addional hardware not supported by these drivers
 
Hardware:
 
HP Netserver 5/100 LH -- Pent, 192M, PCI 3c905B nic, onboard
Adaptec AIC-7850 controller pair at rev 1.19S6; all SCSI
drives; Texel DM-xx24 K scsi CD-ROM drive (tray type) -- 
NIC is PCI 3com ... still no eisa hardware

Comment 9 R P Herrold 2001-02-12 20:29:51 UTC

From testers list today:

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:37:00 -0700
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs.com>
To: testers-list
Subject: [testers] Re: fisher install problem with aic78xx module
 
>Hi folks!  I tried to install the fisher beta on my home machine last
>night, but didn't make it very far.
 
I'm not positive as I haven't installed fisher yet, but I believe
it inludes 6.0.8BETA of the aic7xxx driver.  That version had various
issues with the aic7895 as well as the 2.4.1 new error recovery code.
Version 6.1.1 of the driver is now available as source patches against
2.4.1 and includes the necessary changes to the new SCSI exception handling
code to deal with aborts.  It also corrects all known issues with the
aic7895.                     
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If/When the Adaptec code resurfaces, we'll see ...
-- Russ

Comment 10 R P Herrold 2001-02-12 20:32:46 UTC

My Netserver 4/66 reports that it is a pair of

Apaptec-7770, v 2.11 S3 ... controllers

Comment 11 R P Herrold 2001-03-02 02:00:21 UTC

Fallback to 7.1RC1 -- drivers working fine -- Thanks