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 ) -------------------------------- 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 ... =============================== This may be a variant of "Henri J. Schlereth" <henris> 's bug ...
This is a similar but not identical case to 25832
My architecture is EISA 486 -- no PCI bus present; SCSI HD's, SCSI CD-ROM
This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Release-Candidate #1
I don't think we've ever supported EISA - assigning to an engineer.
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 ...
We're going to revert to the old aic driver, so this should get better.
We reverted this driver, so the problems should go away. Please confirm in the next CD we send.
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
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. --------------------------------- If/When the Adaptec code resurfaces, we'll see ... -- Russ
My Netserver 4/66 reports that it is a pair of Apaptec-7770, v 2.11 S3 ... controllers
Fallback to 7.1RC1 -- drivers working fine -- Thanks