Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:27:50 +0100 (MEZ) | From | "Dr. Michael Weller" <> | Subject | Re: AIC-7890 SCSI problems |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, G. Hugh Song wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, G. Hugh Song wrote: [...] > > BTW, I had some major problems with the aic7xxx driver on a aha2940u2w in > > 2.2.14. It seems the mode sense handling was pretty much screwed and > > caused havoc with more elaborate scsi devices (tapes, removables) that > > need more than plain SCSI read/write commands. > > Ah-ha! I've got a SCSI CDRewritable drive from Sony. That probably > caused timing erors. I guess I need to take out that fancy rewritable > and put a plain IDE cdrom. > > > My problem (fortunately, knock on wood) seems to be cured by the 5.1.28 > > release. From my problems I'd claim that anyone trying to use a tape or > > similar device would get plenty of problems w/o it. > > Without what?
W/o the 5.1.28 patch (and predecessors) applied to 2.2.14..
> > A new 2.2 release with > > the updated aic7xxx driver is almost unavoidable. > > Are you talking about version 5.2.? of aic7xxx? The aic7xxx homepage does > not have it yet. http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html
Sorry, it seems I made myself not clear enough. I meant, IMHO, a 2.2.15 release of the kernel with the 5.1.28 aic7xxx included is absolutely necessary, s.t. it ends up on linux distribs as a default. Otherwise I'd suspect people with aic7xxx cards using some SCSI removables (mod/tape) for backup like I do will dangerous problems.
For example, I use the mo disk on another linux system since ages. Thus I did not expect a single problem and I have some important data archived on MOD's. If they haven't been write protected (I'm not that stupid...), I'd completely lost that data due to media change misdetection...
So, I mean, the aic7xxx has DANGEROUS bugs in it.
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