Re: AIC-7XXX driver problems with 2.4.9 and L440GX+

[Derek Gladding]

On Friday 21 September 2001 01:58 pm, Ray Bryant wrote:
> The AIC-7XXX version 6.2.1 driver hangs at startup under 2.4.x  (we've
> tried
> 2.4.2-2 (RH 7.1), 2.4.5, and 2.4.9).

[snip]

> These same machines worked fine with 2.2.18 from www.kernel.org and
> 2.2.19 from RedHat.  Any suggestions?
>
> Machine is an Intel L440GX+ 700 MHZ PIII 2GB RAM
> Adapter is Adaptec AIX-7896 Bios level is v2.20.S1B1
> Disks are QUANTUM ATLS TY09TL
> Machine bios is Phoenix 4.0 Release 6.0

I had something similar on my dev box (2.4.[789] / Dual PIII-750 / Via / 1.5G 
/ Adaptec 2940 / three striped IBM DCHS-09Y 9.1G) and found that compiling 
the aic7xxx driver with TCQ disabled got round the problem. A far from 
perfect solution, I know, but it may get you up and running and maybe
provide some more clues as to what is happening.

- Derek